issue with IE6 IE7 titles and bookmarks

Protos · #1 (**permalink**) 12-02-2008, 05:51 AM

Hi,
I'm trying to track down a solution to another strange problem in IE6 and 7.

If the title of your page has any of the following 3 characters : < > * and the page is bookmarked these three characters won't show up in the bookmark title.

So for example if in your html you have :

<title> Test * Test < Test > end</title></head>

The title will show up properly in IE6, but if the page is bookmarked the title will look like :

Test Test Test end

in the bookmark dropdown and in the favorites popup when saving.
Any ideas ? Google wasn't much help.

Cheers,
Colm

Deadeye · #2 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 10:37 AM

off the top of my head I don't know why it would or wouldn't append those chars to the saved bookmark title. Does this happen in FF as well or is it only related to IE6 & 7?

curtiss · #3 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 08:17 PM

Are the characters encoded properly? In other words, are you using:

Code:

or are you using:

Code:

&lt;