Hyperlink to map website causes invalid code

[ClulessChris]

I use the folowing link in my code to link to a map refence on multimap.com
However as the link has unencoded amperstands it causes the page to fail validation. If I encode the amersands the link doesn't work.
can I get the link to work and the page code to validate?

<p><a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|CF44[/URL] 9DE#t=l&map=51.73027,-3.48301|15|4&loc=GB:51.73027:-3.48301:15|CF44 9DE|CF44 9DE"
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[trollacious]

You have an unencoded space in there, as you can see from the URL in your original post.

Lee

 

[ClulessChris]

trollacious,
thanks for your reply. yes I also have unencoded spaces in there. but if I encode them as below, the link doesn't open with the correct location in the map.

<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|CF44%209DE#t=l%26map=51.73027,-3.48301|15|4%26loc=GB:51.73027:-3.48301:15|CF44%209DE|CF44%209DE"[/URL]	target="_blank">Multimap Directions</a>

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

 

[ClulessChris]

Ok I just noticed other uencoded charecters ther too. have now corrected with:

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=...oc=GB:51.73027:-3.48301:15|CF44 9DE|CF44 9DE"

many thanks

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

 

[trollacious]

You're also encoding valid ampersands, the ones right before loc and map. Try encoding the values of the elements before building the URL.

Lee

 

[Lowet]

The # char might cause a problem since it means that it points to an anchor on the target page/URL..

- Lowet

[gray]Why can't all browsers parse pages the same way? It should be the Web designer who decides how to display the content, not the browser![/gray]

 

[ClulessChris]

Many thanks all but the issue in now resolved with the encoded URL in my last post.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!