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Strange treatment of "plus" character (+) by Internet Explorer 7

Answer 1

+1 A:

Does it work if you use the numeric character reference notation?

<html>
  <body>
     <p>&#43;</p>
  </body>
</html>

mhawke 2008-10-30 01:44:12

Yes, it does work when encoded this way.

Yarik 2008-10-30 08:34:39

Answer 2

A:

Does it work if you use a Doctype? IE does get a bit picky if you don't use a doctype (insert no-right-to-be-picky pun here).

By intermittent do you mean using the same code it appears and doesn't? That sounds really strange.

CLOSED - NOT REPRO... er I mean I only get the +, no matter how many times I refresh. I suggest using the HTML entity reference - but this might be a problem with your system/browser if others can't reproduce either.

Ross 2008-10-30 15:35:15

Yes, that's exactly what I mean by "intermittent"...And today it is totally unreproducable on my system. Yes, it does look like some problem with my system/browser.

Yarik 2008-11-01 05:26:14

Sorry, can't try your idea about DOCTYPE right now... Will try as soon as the bug rears its stinky head again.

Yarik 2008-11-01 05:30:27

Answer 3

A:

For whatever it's worth, I just tested this on IE 7 (7.0.5730.13C0) and it consistently displays the "+" even with several refreshes (at least 10 or 12). You didn't mention an OS but in my case it's Windows XP SP2 (Help About displays Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_qfe.070227-2300: Service Pack 2). The OS may make a difference in this case.

Onorio Catenacci 2008-10-31 11:30:11

True. :-( FWIW, I have Windows Server 2003 Web Edition SP2.

Yarik 2008-11-01 05:28:18

Answer 4

A:

It's possible that this is due to the server, particularly if it's trying to parse the page as a script. To check:

What HTTP headers do you see when the effect occurs?
When you "View Source" at that point, what do you see?
Does the effect ever occur when you load the page directly as a file?
Does the effect ever occur in other browsers?

eswald 2008-11-14 22:13:58

There was no server involved: I was opening an HTML file on a disk (i.e. using **file://** protocol). "View Source" shows exactly the right source. I did not try any other browsers.

Yarik 2008-11-15 09:42:20

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