TElHTMLView: the '&' symbol

Genery · June 2013

Hello!

ElHTMLView.Caption := '&z=12  Test'; //it shows only 'Test'

if remove the first '&' symbol or place a space after it, it works ok, but I need to show ampersand symbols in URLs... How can I make it work properly?

-Dmitry

BernhardGeyer · June 2013

Use the correct HTML-Encoding for that special character:


<code>&amp;amp;

or &#38;

Genery · June 2013

So it is necessary to pre-process text before loading into elhtmlview.. All browsers show this character correctly ('&z' like '&z', '&' like '&'), I think this is a bug in your html renderer. Or bug/feature. )

BernhardGeyer · June 2013

Yes, that is neede,
All browser show this correcter because the are very error-tollerant in this area.

try to use following html-Code

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>hello html</title>
</head>
<body>
Test Text1: &b<br>
Test Text2: &b
</body>
</html>

and do a validation via http://validator.w3.org

Rafael Maricca (LMD) · June 2013

@Bernhard

Thank you for answering the question

@Genery

It is not the goal of ElPack HTML controls to emulate a browser. Only subset of HTML is supported (http://wiki.lmd.de/index.php/LMD_VCL_-_MiniHTML).

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