& replaced by &amp; inside a <A> tag in Source view

[David Négrier]

1. On FCK Editor, click on the "Source button. Then copy and paste the following

<a href="​http://toto/?foo=1&bar=2">toto</a>

2. Click on 'Source' twice (to leave the source view and to come back in the source view)

Actual Result

<a href="​http://toto/?foo=1&amp;bar=2">toto</a>

The & has been transformed into a &amp;

Expected Result

<a href="​http://toto/?foo=1&bar=2">toto</a>

Observation

When clicking on the "Source" button several more times, the &amp; remains there but is not duplicated for each click. Therefore, this bug is different from the #1073.

OS : Windows XP Pro , Windows Vista, Browser : IE 7 and Firefox 2

Thanks and Regards,

Congratulation for your huge work

David.

[Martin Kou]

Hi David

This is actually the correct behavior. Although it is common practice to write "?var1=val1&var2=val2&var3=val3&..." inside the href attribute, the & sign doesn't ​validate in respect to XHTML 1.1. Writing "&amp;" instead of "&" validates and doesn't change the meaning of the attribute value.

[Frederico Caldeira Knabben]

Check out the ​ForceSimpleAmpersand setting.