link to url with "?" in IE

[tikka12]

Hi,

I have a website and throughout it I have a link to another website (via a button) where the url has a question mark in it, i.e. http://www.mywebsite.com/?username

The link works just fine in Firefox, but in IE, it reverses the url and when you hover the mouse over the button/link, the bottom left corner of the browser says "Shortcut to ?username at www.mywebsite.com," and nothing happens when you click on the button.

Here's a copy of the code:

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<a class="order" href="http://www.mywebsite.com/?username"target="_blank"><button>Order
Products</button></a>

I changed the name of the real website and username, because I wasn't sure if I should put it on here.

Does anyone know why this is happening? I have to have the question mark as part of the link url, and it's for a business, so making the link work is vital as well.

Thanks for any help!!

Note: edited to fix code - I copied incorrectly the first time.

[sypher]

well its not right, u forgot the space between username"target=

[tikka12]

Is that just an IE thing...the space before the "target="?

The majority of my links are like that (open a new browser) and work fine in Firefox... but thanks for the tip...I'll change it and see if it works.

I also noticed that it's only the links that I made into buttons that have a problem. The straight text links work fine.

My pdf files also will not open in correctly in IE, the link works, and adobe opens, but then the page is just blank... but it could just be my computer.

Thanks again!

[tikka12]

I just tried adding the space and that doesn't seem to work either....

[sypher]

its most likely because dynamic urls should be for example:

www.mydomain.com?username=sypher

it has to equal something otherwise theres no point to the url as thats how dynamic languages use the url.

[herkalees]

Originally Posted by tikka12

Is that just an IE thing...the space before the "target="?

Just clear this up, the attribute doesn't get surrounded by quotes, only the attribute's value does.

For instance:

"target=_blank" is wrong
target="_blank" is correct

[sypher]

<a class="order" href="http://www.mywebsite.com/?username=" target="_blank"><button>Order
Products</button></a>

[mgcom]

i think you need to use php