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Clean URLs

8th November 2002

Handy bookmark for bloggers who wish to validate: cleanURL. It gives you the URL of the current page with all &s replaced with &, ready to be posted in to a blog entry. Unescaped ampersands are one of the most common causes of invalidity on my blog so this is going to come in very handy.

Posted 8th November 2002 at 2:44 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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