Search results encode & as & #8440
Description
Context
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Bug description
When searching for terms that contain an ampersand (&), MkDocs search results display & instead of &.
This occurs both on my company documentation site that uses MkDocs, as well as on the official MkDocs documentation site itself (https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/).
Example (here):
Related links
Similar issues have been opened and closed in the past, but the problem persists.
- search does not support utf8 #2970
- Search highlighting does not properly escape HTML #2879
- Possibly related: Search do not support utf8 first character #271
Reproduction
I tried but cannot reproduce this bug in a minimal site locally. But, it happens on https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/ and our production site.
Steps to reproduce
- Open https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/ in a browser.
- Use the search bar to search for a phrase with an ampersand, e.g.,
Your knowledge & skills. - All ampersands are shown as
&.
Browser
Safari, Firefox
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