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 around or hack for this.

Thanks

Answer 1

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

Unescaped ampersands in URLs (or anywhere else, if they're not part of an HTML entity!) aren't "nice standards compliant code".

Turn them into & and you can accurately claim to have done this.