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Last post 06-10-2005, 10:47 AM by Adam. 9 replies.


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01-13-2005, 8:35 PM 3494

deanfriesen
Joined on 01-09-2005
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ampersand

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I am having a problem when editing HTML containing a link with ampersands... like (let's hope this works)

somepage.aspx?param1=3&param2=50

it ends up in the html as

somepage.aspx?param1=3&2=50

the link then does not work correctly in the document...

Any way to prevent this?

01-13-2005, 11:15 PM 3495 in reply to 3494

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: ampersand

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"&" is a special character.

Cute Editor automatically convert it to html entity.

somepage.aspx?param1=3&param2=50

will ends up in html as

somepage.aspx?param1=3&param2=50

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01-14-2005, 2:58 AM 3496 in reply to 3495

deanfriesen
Joined on 01-09-2005
Posts 15

Re: ampersand

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Thanks for taking the time to respond... I understand that if you type an & in the body that it should be converted, but this is as part of a link... how do I accomplish creating an href that contains parameters?

Is there some way to escape it so it doesn't get converted?

For instance...

<a href="/somepage.aspx> Cute & Soft </a> should end up as

<a href="/somepage.aspx> Cute & Soft </a> correctly,

but

<a href="/somepage.aspx?param1=21&param2=22> Cutesoft </a> should end up as

<a href="/somepage.aspx?param1=21&param2=22> Cutesoft </a>

right?

01-18-2005, 8:41 PM 3555 in reply to 3494

deanfriesen
Joined on 01-09-2005
Posts 15

Re: ampersand

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OK... I have worked around this by defining links with a tag [XXXAMPXXX] then subbing that out with a mail merge when the mail is actually sent... but am I off-base to think that ampersands within a tag should be left alone?

02-27-2005, 10:22 PM 4313 in reply to 3555

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: ampersand

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Please download latest version 4.0.0.5.

In the version 4.0.0.5, We added a new propery Editor.UseHTMLEntities.

By default Cute Editor maps most special characters to the equivalent HTML entity automatically.

You can turn it off by setting this property to "false".

03-26-2005, 10:49 AM 5002 in reply to 4313

RodneyLai
Joined on 03-14-2005
Posts 29

Re: ampersand

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i downloaded the latest trial version last night and the UseHTMLEntities property doesn't seem
to do anything.
i've tried setting it in code, Editor.UseHTMLEntities=false
and in the designer:
<CE:Editor EditorWysiwygModeCss="/cute/example.css,/cute/empty.css" id="CuteEditor" ShowPreviewMode="False" Height="600" Width="100%" UseHTMLEntities="False" runat="server" ></CE:Editor>

03-27-2005, 1:13 AM 5010 in reply to 5002

jeffhagen
Joined on 03-26-2005
Posts 5

Re: ampersand

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Use this:

string text = Regex.Replace(Editor.Text, @"(?<=href\s*=\s*(?<1>'|"")\S+)&(?=\S*\1)", "&", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

06-09-2005, 7:30 PM 7424 in reply to 5010

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: ampersand

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Editor.UseSimpleAmpersand Property

W3C recommend that all '&' in query strings be converted to & This is the only way to get a piece of HTML validated. The reason is that & is the start of an HTML entity, such as £

So this:


        <a href="page.aspx?var1=one&amp;var2=two">link</a> 
is valid, whereas: 
        <a href="page.aspx?var1=one&var2=two">link</a> 
isn't.

If you still want to use simple Ampersand in query strings, you can set this property to true. if you want to retrieve the CuteEditor HTML content in XHTML format, the 'UseSimpleAmpersand' property will be ignored.

06-10-2005, 1:31 AM 7450 in reply to 7424

Jugador
Joined on 06-10-2005
Posts 26

Re: ampersand

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I have a doult too ....

In Href when I save it the href it is lost For example:

from href="http://localhost/is5_4/..." to href="/is5_4/..... "

This is causing me problems when sending mails .....

Does anybody knows how to fix it ?????????

Thanks

AAp

06-10-2005, 10:47 AM 7462 in reply to 7450

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: ampersand

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Please check this example:

http://cutesoft.net/example/Relative-or-Absolute-URLs.aspx

You can find the source code of the above example in the download package.