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ecfc girl

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Seen this on a few websites over the years (mostly the BBC) and I just wondered why this happens.

Taken from the fixtures section on our homepage....

Dagenham & Redbridge [a]
13/12/2008
Venue: London Borough of Barking &
 

Oli

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Used to happen on the official site. Often when posted from something like Word (from font 1) into a content management system for a website what does not handle the original font and extra info that comes across.
 

ecfc girl

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Like anything that MB writes on his Mac? ;) Oh god, the hours I spent changing that. I only did it for one article and it was flipping hard work and took me about an hour!
 

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Its something to do with HTML coding and the use of the ampersand as either coding or in place of "and".

Thats the limit of my knowledge.
 

Poundstretcher

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I think it's probably an XML-HTML conflict reading from a list. XML won't take &, < or > signs so you have to type & or > or < to get them to display. HTML takes every character as entered, with obvious results in this case.

I think.
 

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Its something to do with HTML coding and the use of the ampersand as either coding or in place of "and".
The man's got it.

Code:
& = &
For some reason vBulletin understands what an ampersand is but vBadvanced doesn't. Will alter that now.
 
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