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Message: [QUOTE="Duncan Booth, post: 2051336"] I don't think I would quibble with what BeautifulSoup extracted from that mess. The input isn't valid HTML so any output has to be guessing at what was meant. A lot of code for parsing html would assume that there was a quote missing and the tag was terminated by the first '>'. IE and Firefox seem to assume that the '>' is allowed inside the attribute. BeautifulSoup seems to have given you the best of both worlds: the attribute is parsed to the closing quote, but the tag itself ends at the first '>'. As for inserting a semicolon after linkurl, I think you'll find it is just being nice and cleaning up an unterminated entity. Browsers (or at least IE) will often accept entities without the terminating semicolon, so that's a common problem in badly formed html that BeautifulSoup can fix. [/QUOTE]