Title: escape &
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# escape &

 *  [maciejmt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maciejmt/)
 * (@maciejmt)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escape-1/)
 * Could you escape ampersand with entity & ?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-manager/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-manager/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Shahjada](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codename065/)
 * (@codename065)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escape-1/#post-5060429)
 * not clear, may you please explain it little more.
 *  Thread Starter [maciejmt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maciejmt/)
 * (@maciejmt)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/escape-1/#post-5060430)
 * 1)Generated download link contains unescaped ampersand :
    ?wpdmact=process&did
   =…… 2)and the second: Bad value 1 for attribute rel on element a
 * W3C HTML5 validator don’t pass as a valid html5 page with Your download button.

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