Ampersands in hyperlinks cause W3C validation to fail

Question

I have a reacurring problem. I code nice standards compliant code only to have it fail due to ampersands within some of the hyperlink urls.

Does anyone know of a work ar

Answer 1

You should URL Encode the hyperlinks, so all characters are turned into a valid ASCII format and don't contain any (X)HTML entities.

For C# use HttpUtility.UrlEncode, for PHP urlencode, for JavaScript encodeURI, etc... Finding the right method for the language you're using shouldn't be that hard.