%URL meta-HTML element

Syntax

%URL(URLIdentifier [, NOENCODE | ENCODE | DESCR])

Description

The %URL meta-HTML function finds the URL specified by URLIdentifier and substitutes its value. The URLIdentifier must already exist and have been created using URL Maintenance.

Note:

This function is valid for use in auxiliary JavaScript files.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
URLIdentifier	Specify a URL Identifier for a URL that already exists and was created using the URL Maintenance page.
NOENCODE \| ENCODE \| DESCR	Specify any encoding or other processing to be done with the URL. ENCODE is the default value. If you specify ENCODE, special characters in the URL are encoded using standard URL encoding rules, that is, blanks are replaced with %20, and so on. If you specify NOENCODE, no encoding is done with the URL. If you specify DESCR, the description from the URL definition is used instead of the URL itself.

Parameter

Description

URLIdentifier

Specify a URL Identifier for a URL that already exists and was created using the URL Maintenance page.

NOENCODE | ENCODE | DESCR

Specify any encoding or other processing to be done with the URL. ENCODE is the default value. If you specify ENCODE, special characters in the URL are encoded using standard URL encoding rules, that is, blanks are replaced with %20, and so on.

If you specify NOENCODE, no encoding is done with the URL.

If you specify DESCR, the description from the URL definition is used instead of the URL itself.

Example

<a href='%URL(homepage)'>%URL(homepage, DESCR)</a>

Related Topics

System and Server Administration: URL Maintenance