"HTML: missing ';'

[jc mag]

I'm trying justCode and I have the "HTML: missing ';'" warning for the ampersand on this line:

<a href='History.aspx?page=<%# Eval("PageName") %>&revision=<%# Eval("Number") %>'>

but there is no need to display a warning in this case.

[Hans Kratz]

Hello,

Thanks for the feedback!

Actually the warning is valid. In order to have proper HTML produced you need to write & instead of just the &.

See e.g. this article for details:
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp

Best wishes,
Hans Kratz
the Telerik team

[WaldenL]

Old post, I know, but... Yes, _technically_ you are correct, the HREF, SRC, or similar attribute is an HTML attribute, and as such should be HTML encoded. However, that's not commonly done, and while I'd love to "Fix" it, there are many other fish to fry. The problem is, I don't see a way to turn off that type of warning for HTML and ASP.Net code. I've LOVE to see a setting called "Ignore in HREF, SRC and similar attributes, unless text is a recognized entity value", but I'll take an general ignore for now. Any suggestions?

[Zdravko]

Hello,

 Thanks for contacting us.
Maybe it would be better if there is an option that allows to disable this kind of warning.
We are thinking to implement it in some of the future versions of JustCode.
Thanks and have a nice day.

Kind regards,
Zdravko
the Telerik team

[Caleb]

I'm getting this error too and it's invalid:

<a href='FormInputEdit.aspx?cid=0&pid=<%# EditId %>'>Add New Field</a>

it fails in many places on my site because of this too.. there's no option to disable this invalid error either

[Zdravko]

Hello,

 @Caleb 
Yes, it is the same. You have to escape the & with & in order fix the warning. The other way to fix it is to ignore the warning.
Thanks.

Greetings,
Zdravko
the Telerik team

[JeffSM]

How do ignore? Is there a way to do for all alerts?

[Nikolay Valchev]

Hello Jefferson,

Here you can see how to ignore a warning or an error. Could you tell us what exactly you want to achieve: ignore all warnings/errors of any kind or in a particular kind?

Regards,
Nikolay Valchev
Telerik

 

 

[JeffSM]

The particular kind, subject of this post: HTML: missing ';', for all solutions.

[Nikolay Valchev]

Hello Jefferson,

You can watch this video and see how to ignore them all. Note that this will ignore all warnings of this kind which are already existing, those that are introduced after this action is performed will not be ignored and you should repeat the same procedure again. Another thing which you can do is to change the problem type to 'disabled' but since this warning is assigned to 'Language Warnings' group all other warnings that belong to this group will be ignored, too.

If you have any further questions or remarks, please do not hesitate to contact us!

Regards,
Nikolay Valchev
Telerik