https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-pass-an-url-with-an-ampersand-in-a-dynamically-populated-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: How to pass an URL with an Ampersand (&) in a dynamically populated field? en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:27:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-pass-an-url-with-an-ampersand-in-a-dynamically-populated-field#post-112133 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:24:40 +0000 Chris Hajer 112133@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm not sure if Gravity Forms can do anything about that. If your form is located on a page here:</p> <blockquote><p> <a href="http://example.com/form-page/" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/form-page/</a> </p></blockquote> <p>And you are sending your string to the form with a parameter like this:</p> <blockquote><p> <a href="http://example.com/form-page/?url=http://ancestry.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5843&amp;tree=ancestors" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/form-page/?url=http://ancestry.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5843&amp;tree=ancestors</a> </p></blockquote> <p>I believe WordPress is going to split that into at least two parameters:<br /> url: <a href="http://ancestry.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5843" rel="nofollow">http://ancestry.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5843</a><br /> tree: ancestors</p> <p>I'm surprised that personID is not split off as well, since there are two question marks in that query string. </p> <p>I think this is all coming from WordPress though, and the web server software. Maybe you will need to plan on that "tree" parameter being sent always, and store that in another field, dynamically populated with the parameter name of "tree". If you need to put it all back together, you can do that in a hidden field and use the gform_pre_submission_filter. <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_pre_submission_filter" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_pre_submission_filter</a></p> <p>Or, maybe you can modify the string before it's sent to your form, to encode the ampersand, or otherwise make this appear as just one long string to your WordPress page. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/how-to-pass-an-url-with-an-ampersand-in-a-dynamically-populated-field#post-112100 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:47:45 +0000 walt 112100@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi</p> <p>Currently I'm working on a form with several fields that will be dynamically populated. One of these fields will receive URL's of the following form: </p> <p><a href="http://ancestry.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5843&amp;tree=ancestors" rel="nofollow">http://ancestry.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5843&amp;tree=ancestors</a></p> <p>There is an &amp; in the URL that is currently being cut-off in the dynamically populated field, resulting in: </p> <p><a href="http://ancestry.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5843" rel="nofollow">http://ancestry.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I5843</a></p> <p>Question: how can I prevent the &amp; from being cut off in the dynamically populated URL field?</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Walt </p>