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I see that many pages have & in querystring instead &. What is
difference? Can I put page link (url)
www.mysite.com/mypage.aspx?lang=EN&ID=15 or I need to write
www.mysite.com/mypage.aspx?lang=EN&ID=15
What is difference between & and & and what is better?
May 4 '07 #1
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& is an & sign when encoded for correct presentation in text so in html
you would say Bill & Ben in your code and it would be presented as Bill
& Ben in the browser. You would only use it in a URL if you wanted to pass
Bill&Ben as an argument. The & sign on the URL is for gluing querystring
parameters together.

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>I see that many pages have &amp; in querystring instead &. What is
difference? Can I put page link (url)
www.mysite.com/mypage.aspx?lang=EN&ID=15 or I need to write
www.mysite.com/mypage.aspx?lang=EN&amp;ID=15
What is difference between & and &amp; and what is better?

May 4 '07 #2
The proper character for an url is & BUT in an HTML document the & character
introduces a character entity. For this reason, when a link is written
inside an HTML document it's better to use &amp; to avoid a possible
confusion. Note that this is an HTML issue, in particular the server will
still see just & (as this is what &amp; means in an HTML document).

See :
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/...ms.html.en#amp

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>I see that many pages have &amp; in querystring instead &. What is
difference? Can I put page link (url)
www.mysite.com/mypage.aspx?lang=EN&ID=15 or I need to write
www.mysite.com/mypage.aspx?lang=EN&amp;ID=15
What is difference between & and &amp; and what is better?

May 4 '07 #3
Hello Tony,

Just to add to partice, read "HTML Document Representation" http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html
about HTML/URL Encoding

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TI see that many pages have &amp; in querystring instead &. What is
Tdifference? Can I put page link (url)
Twww.mysite.com/mypage.aspx?lang=EN&ID=15 or I need to write
Twww.mysite.com/mypage.aspx?lang=EN&amp;ID=15
TWhat is difference between & and &amp; and what is better?
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