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Toggling back and forth between HTML and RTE view is not a good thing as the command sent to the browser to do this does tend to make the browser re-write the HTML code in all browsers.

The problem is you are limited to what the browser can do and trying to work around the limitations, bugs, and quirks all browsers seem to have with their RTE's.

RTE features of web browsers seem to be all rather buggy at the moment, with Safaris effort on the MAC being so bad it is almost unusable so support for Safari will be sometime off unless they improve things in new versions soon.

If you want links with & to stay intact I would suggest until browser RTE support improves that you stay away from using the HTML Toggle Button.

It could be something to do with the page encoding that you have set the page to, or the page encoding for your browser that is coursing the & in a link to be HTML encoded as &

Try changing the page encoding of the page and see if that solves the problem.

Don't forget the ; and &

The following should work better otherwise words like 'amplifier' can not be used:-

newString = replace(newString, "&", "&")