title: Passing ampersands in Javascript through AJAX
body: <p>I am making an AJAX call with JQuery to a .Net application.  The value that is being passed sometimes to my ajax call is &amp;.</p>
  
  <pre><code>var searchValue = '&amp;';
  var url = "method=searchvariables&amp;searchvalue="+searchValue;
  
  url += "&amp;position=1";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>On the .NET side, the searchVale is always null.</p>
  
  <p>How do I pass in the ampersand so it gets recognized by the .Net code?</p>