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FP2000: Empty Space in URL of Hyperlink Is Replaced with %20

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Symptoms

In a Microsoft FrontPage Web, when you insert a link to another Web page whose Uniform Resource Locator (URL) contains a space, that space is replaced with the following characters
%20
when you view the HTML code for the link in FrontPage.

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Cause

This behavior occurs because FrontPage automatically inserts %20 into any empty spaces in a URL for the sake of compatibility with browsers that do not accept spaces in a URL.

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Workaround

This behavior is by design.

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More information

Because spaces have special meaning in most programming languages, other characters or sets of characters (in this case, %20) are used to eliminate the empty space.

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Keywords: KB308695, kbprb

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Article Info
Article ID : 308695
Revision : 2
Created on : 1/7/2006
Published on : 1/7/2006
Exists online : False
Views : 221