+ in link is converting Hex value

[grobinso]

Hi all , wonder if anyone has any idea why this is happening.

I am seting up a new site and have noticed that when i assign a link to a menu item such as http://blablabla.....co.uk/spring+flowers , when the page is loaded and viewed in a browser the spring+flowers bit is showing as spring%2Bflowers (the hex value of + )

Naturally this is screwing up the next page as the software cant handle spring%2Bflowers and returns a 'no items found ' message.

It is fine in Dreamweaver but F12 it to view it and it changes, anyone any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Graham

[Robert-H]

try putting an underscore or hyphenin instead of the plus sign eg. spring_flowers or spring-flowers i usually use hyphens

[tbp]

This is actually correct, and should be happening.

The + character is actualy a control character used to represent a space. So for example with url parameters, sending keyword = black gloves would be sent as keyword=black+gloves.

Because of this, you can't use + in a normal url because it confuses things, as its part of url rather than representing a space. As a result, its displayed as the hex code to indicate that its not to be taken as a space, but as part of the URL.

Change it from spring+flowers to spring-flowers and you won't have any problems, and will also be more search engine friendly.

[grobinso]

Thanks for the replies, did a bit googling and i realise now it was urlencoding , as you said.

Managed to sort it , not quite sure how but its working now

Thanks again

Graham