Title: This plugin breaks HTML5 Validation!!
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# This plugin breaks HTML5 Validation!!

 *  [sytelus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sytelus/)
 * (@sytelus)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-breaks-html5-validation/)
 * After I activated this plugin, my website fails on HTML5 validator. I believe
   you should be escaping the URL in href.
 * Try validator on w3.org:
 * [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shitalshah.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=1&outline=1&No200=1](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shitalshah.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=1&outline=1&No200=1)
 * I get this message:
 * Error HTML5 Validator Error
    Syntax of IRI reference: Any URL. For example: /
   hello, #canvas, or [http://example.org/](http://example.org/). Characters should
   be represented in NFC and spaces should be escaped as %20. Line 290, column 1349:
   Bad value [http://reddit.com/submit?url=http://shitalshah.com/p/surviving-windows-8-first-encounter/&title=Surviving](http://reddit.com/submit?url=http://shitalshah.com/p/surviving-windows-8-first-encounter/&title=Surviving)
   Windows 8 First Encounter for attribute href on element a: Illegal character 
   in query: not a URL code point
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 * Last reply from: [sytelus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sytelus/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-breaks-html5-validation/)
 * Status: not resolved