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entity encoding issue IE

 
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I have discovered that

is translated to

by IE, while Netscape, Mozilla and Opera work correctly. Apparently IE appends a ; to &sect autonomously.

[ April 11, 2003: Message edited by: omar khan ]
 
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I am assuming that this when the URL is embedded within a page? (I'll avoid my weekly 'What do you expect from Microsoft?' tirade.. oh, too late...)
Perhaps if you encode the ampersand itself as an entity that will keep all the browsers happy?
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[ April 11, 2003: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]
 
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