Dreamweaver and the ampersand with in links

[jimmyabcdeft]

Im trying to validate my code, and i want to change my links to clean up the code, such as:

"

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=Holmwood"

to


"

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=Holmwood"

^^^^^

But dreamweaver keeps changing it back!, How annoying!

Thanks for the help in advance

 

[lebisol]

not valid in URL unless you have some custom URL rewrite....

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/reference/article.php/3472611

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[vacunita]

What lebisol is trying to say, is that "&" in URLs have to be ampersands. because unlike normal text, the url uses the & character to separate the values that are passed in it.

Dreamweaver knows this and changes it back so that your URLS work.

URLs with & will not function correctly. in essence you'll be changing the variables from the URL, in your case q=hollywood, to amp;q=hollywood.

Which will render whatever uses that variable useless. As it wont be expecting a variable with a name like amp;q

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