%3A appearing in url when using drop down
Submitted by Kelly and Stuart on Tue, 2008-04-15 23:36.Price Tapestry
Hi David
I have used the code in node 2004 to create drop-downs for merchant, category and brand.
When I choose an item from the lists I get %3A appearing where the : should be e.g. search.php?q=category%3ACat+Flaps%3A.
This doesn't happen when I click on a link from the brand.php, merchant.php and category.php pages. I get a normal http://www.petprice.co.uk/search.php?q=category:Cat+Flaps: url.
Any ideas?
Many Thanks
Kelly
Hi Kelly,
What you are seeing is the "URL Encoding" that is being done by the browser. %3A and ":" are equivalent within a URL so it won't affect anything at all.
Cheers,
David.