Escaping ampersand in URL

Question

I am trying to send a GET message that contains strings with ampersands and can\'t figure how to escape the ampersand in the URL.

Example:

http://www         


        

Answer 1

I would like to add a minor comment on Blender solution.

You can do the following:

var link = 'http://example.com?candy_name=' + encodeURIComponent('M&M');

That outputs:

http://example.com?candy_name=M%26M

The great thing about this it does not only work for & but for any especial character.

For instance:

var link = 'http://example.com?candy_name=' + encodeURIComponent('M&M?><')

Outputs:

"http://example.com?candy_name=M%26M%3F%3E%3C"