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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-30482

special characters in a Header or Page-Title breaks corresponding 'Table of Contents' link

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • Low
    • None
    • 5.1
    • None
    • I think I am using a standalone version of Confluence 5.1 (the root URL is wikitrain.railinc.com) in a Firefox ESR 17.0.8 browser on a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional laptop with JRE 1.6.0_35-b10 (no JDK is installed on this PC)

    Description

      SYNOPSIS:
      If you have a page with a 'Table of Contents', any anchor links with a URL containing certain special characters will be broken. For example, if any of the following appear in a Header, the corresponding link in the Table-of-Contents will not work: ampersands, colons, commas, double-quotes, equal signs, forward-slashes, parentheses, single-quotes.

      Note that dashes in a header do not cause any problem.
      I have not tested asterisks, at symbols, carets, curly braces, dollar signs, exclamation points, reater-than signs, less-than signs, percent signs, periods, plus signs, question marks, square brackets, underline aka underscore characters, verticle bars, nor single or double-byte foreign characters (e.g. the Euro or Yen sign).

      SNAPSHOT: Please see AtlassianConfluenceSpecialCharsBug.png

      ENVIRONMENT: Firefox ESR 17.0.8 on a 64-bit Win 7 Professional

      WORK-AROUND:
      The work-around is easy enough-- remove the special characters.

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              shaffenden Steve Haffenden (Inactive)
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