Microsoft KB Archive/308695

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

Article ID: 308695

Article Last Modified on 1/7/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q308695



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.



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.



WORKAROUND
This behavior is by design.



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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