Re: ampersands in href's

[Marek Kilimajer <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jack Jackson wrote:
> Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote:
>
> > > If I want to make a link to a URL which includes some GETs can I just 
> > > do:
> > >
> > > <a href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?p={$p}&c={$s}' ... etc etc
> > >
> > > or must I escape the ampersand somehow?
> >
> >
> >
> > Depends very much on the document type of your page. Valid XHTML
> > (transitional, at least), for example, doesn't like single ampersands 
> > in <a
> > href=> links. For XHTML, you need to replace "&"s with "&amp;"s.
> >
> > So the following link:
> >
> > <a href='http://www.somewhere.com/index.php?id1=1&id2=2'>Something</a>
> >
> > ...should be changed to:
> >
> > <a href='http://www.somewhere.com/index.php?id=1&amp;id=2'>Something</a>
>
>
> Thank you Murray. The page is in xhtml  1.0/transitional. That was 
> precisely what I was worried about. The &amp; will be converted as part 
> of the URL right? I mean, the printed URL resulting from clicking on 
> that link won't say &amp; it'll just say & is this correct? Combined 
> with Rory's post this is really, really useful stuff and I thank you !

You should use &amp; for all document types, not only xhtml

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