& in link text rendering to & on screen

[baker]

& in link text rendering to & on screen

[Laurel & Hardy](/laurel-hardy/) renders to Laurel & Hardy

Same for:

[Laurel & Hardy](/laurel-hardy/)
[Laurel & Hardy](/laurel-hardy/)
[Laurel & Hardy](/laurel-hardy/)

I am on windows with Hugo 0.99.0
single.html uses > {{ .Content | absLangURL }}

Is there any Hugo way to get the & in a link text? Yes, I am aware that I can write [Laurel and Hardy] ()

[GhsvsDe]

Hugo 0.99.1/Win10/WSL1/Debian

@baker

renders to Laurel & Hardy

That’s true and expected in HTML.

<a href="/laurel-hardy/">Laurel &amp; Hardy</a>

But on my page I see:

EDIT: That looks a bit weird for me to let run the whole content through a absLangURL pipe

{{ .Content | absLangURL }}

But doesn’t change the result in my case.

[jmooring]

I suspect that you created a markdown render hook for links, but neglected to pass .Text through the safeHTML function.

[baker]

Thank you. That pointed my to the culprit, the render links code:

<a href="{{ .Destination | safeURL }}"{{ with .Title}} title="{{ . }}" {{ end }} {{ if strings.HasPrefix .Destination "http" }} target="_blank"{{ end }}>{{ .Text }}</a>

Added safetHTML :

<a href="{{ .Destination | safeURL }}"{{ with .Title}} title="{{ . }}" {{ end }} {{ if strings.HasPrefix .Destination "http" }} target="_blank"{{ end }}>{{ .Text | safeHTML }}</a>

@ GhsvsDe

This renders correctly:
<a href="/laurel-hardy/">Laurel &amp; Hardy</a> >> Laurel & Hardy
Wasn’t on my list, but good to know.