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Tidy: oavslutat & eller okänt objekt "&..."
Orsak 1:
Ett et-tecken användes ensamt när objektet "&" borde använts, vilket gör att webläsare tror man refererar till ett objekt som börjar med med vilken bokstav som helst som kommer efter det ensamma "&".
Exempel:
Ofta beror detta på en länk som denna:
 | <a href="http://www.example.com/cgi?x=123&y=456"> |
 | <a href="http://www.example.com/cgi?x=123&y=456"> |
All special characters in HREF should be encoded. "&" is a reserved character that begins an entity. (ex: ). "&" in an HREF field should be encoded as its equivalent entity "&", even when used as a separator for parameters in the URL. Before you make an opinion about this, please read this page carefully.
Solution:
Replace "&" with "&".
References:
- W3C spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2
- W3C CDATA: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-cdata
- HtmlHelp: http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
- Very interesting: FormSubmissionByURL
Cause 2:
You misspelled the name of a character entity (a string beginning with "&").
Example:
| &Arin;rhus University |
| Århus University |
Solution:
Fix the spelling to match one of the names listed in Chapter 24 of the HTML 4 specification.
References:
Cause 3:
(Error message is Tidy: unescaped & or unknown entity "&#...", where ... are digits or "x" followed by hex digits).
Tidy does not always recognize valid numeric character entities.
This is a bug in Tidy and should be ignored.
Example:
This incorrect error occurs in cases such as the following, all 3 examples are correct HTML, tidy is just wrong:
| Just my €0.02 (2 Eurocents) |
| Just my €0.02 (2 Eurocents) |
| Just my $0.02 (2 dollar-cents) |
Solution:
Ignore the error message and hope someone fixes the bug in HTML tidy.
