In HTML, XHTML, and XML, certain characters are specially processed. The special characters used most are less (<) and ampersand (&). <is valid only at the beginning of the tag, but is used to encode character objects (special characters, characters that cannot be entered, etc.). Because it is special and cannot be displayed as part of the attribute value, it is encoded as & and although it may seem strange if you do not know why the href value in your question is almost correct. In the same estate, it must be encoded as <to ensure proper browser behavior. Not encoding these characters MAY work, but NOT GUARANTEED to work.
URL- ; , href . & . URL- , amp; - . - URL- , amp; - . , , URL- HTML .
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<a href='/projit1/p/discuss/viewDiscussion.actiond=11&projid=11&disid=4'>