Re: How do I properly embed "&" in HREF?

Daniel W. Connolly (connolly@hal.com)
Sun, 26 Feb 1995 20:47:46 +0500

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In message <199502252201.RAA07014@dolphin.automatrix.com>, Skip Montanaro write
s:
>
>Is their one universally acceptable (I hesitate to use the term "correct")
>way to embed "&" or other special characters in HREF attributes?

I've raised this same issue a couple times, most recently on html-wg,
at:

http://www.acl.lanl.gov/HTML_WG/html-wg-95q1.messages/0430.html

The best answer we came up with is to write: &

Some (broken) browser's don't grok, so there's no way to please
everybody today.

There was a nice folloup that gave a summary of the state of the art:

Re: Forms/CGI urls: '&' in HREFattributes
David Robinson (drtr1@cam.ac.uk)
Fri, 10 Feb 95 12:53:12 EST
http://www.acl.lanl.gov/HTML_WG/html-wg-95q1.messages/0455.html

Dan

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