Colons in anchor tags?

myusername · 09-07-2013, 07:38 PM

Are colons not allowed in anchor tags when converting html to epub?

For example, A href="#14:1.0.1.3.10.1.59.1" seems to fail (i.e. the link doesn't work after conversion)

But, A href="#14-1.0.1.3.10.1.59.1" does seem to work.
(all that changed was replacing the colon after 14 with a dash)

Before I go through and change thousands of anchors I wanted to verify that I wasn't missing something.

kovidgoyal · 09-07-2013, 10:45 PM

Dont use periods and dont use colons, they will cause problems in various book reading programs. Use only letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens.

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09-07-2013, 07:38 PM	#1
myusername Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle	Colons in anchor tags? Are colons not allowed in anchor tags when converting html to epub? For example, A href="#14:1.0.1.3.10.1.59.1" seems to fail (i.e. the link doesn't work after conversion) But, A href="#14-1.0.1.3.10.1.59.1" does seem to work. (all that changed was replacing the colon after 14 with a dash) Before I go through and change thousands of anchors I wanted to verify that I wasn't missing something.

09-07-2013, 10:45 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,604 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Dont use periods and dont use colons, they will cause problems in various book reading programs. Use only letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens.

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