In html5, they are equivalent in that example I have to display this exact string in html Traditionally, in html, only &
Y’all address is leaked : AnyMeansPossible
Was correct — but as with so many things, web developers blithely ignored this inconvenient rule and wrote bare ampersands everywhere
For their part, browsers just did the right thing and interpreted these ampersands as ampersands
Html5 standardized this behavior, so now & Is allowed by itself as long as. How do i escape this ampersand in the source xml I tried &, but this is decoded as the actual ampersand character (&), which is invalid in html
So i want to escape it in such a way that it will be rendered as & In the web page that uses the xml output. So you should be replacing your ampersands with & When writing a url in your markup
Is only done when writing the url in html, where & is a special character (along with < and >).
Under all circumstances, for me, is an easier rule to live by, reducing the likelihood of errors and failures Which is easier to bugger up Methodology 1 write some content which includes ampersand characters Methodology 2 (with a grain of salt, please ;) )
Is the proper way to escape the ampersand in an html context.where is your source coming from 15 why should i use & When writing html for my site Where can i find a list of other symbols that i should be encoding
(the bar / too, right?) what problems could i have if i paste the symbol right as it is into the html?
The ampersand character (&) and the left angle bracket (<) must not appear in their literal form, except when used as markup delimiters, or within a comment, a processing instruction, or a cdata section If they are needed elsewhere, they must be escaped using either numeric character references or the strings &
