Title: Validation Error fix?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Validation Error fix?

 *  Resolved [Brent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colourstone/)
 * (@colourstone)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-fix/)
 * Hi Pippin,
 * I’m getting the following two errors when checking for validation:
 *     ```
       Error: Bad value http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4985 Battle Creek Rd SE Salem, OR 97302 for attribute href on element a: Whitespace in query component. Use %20 in place of spaces.
       From line 2483, column 3; to line 2483, column 98
       script>↩		<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4985 Battle Creek Rd SE Salem, OR 97302" target="_blank"><input
       Syntax of IRI reference:
       Any URL. For example: /hello, #canvas, or http://example.org/. Characters should be represented in NFC and spaces should be escaped as %20.
       Error: The element input must not appear as a descendant of the a element.
       From line 2483, column 99; to line 2483, column 160
       ="_blank"><input type="button" class="pw_button" value="Get Directions"></a>↩
       ```
   
 * Anything you can do to help?
 * My site is at [http://brentwallace.com](http://brentwallace.com).
    I used this
   address to check things: [http://validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fbrentwallace.com%2F&showsource=yes#l2213c228](http://validator.nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fbrentwallace.com%2F&showsource=yes#l2213c228)
 * Thank you,
    Brent
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-maps-short-code/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-google-maps-short-code/)

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 *  Moderator [Pippin Williamson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mordauk/)
 * (@mordauk)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-fix/#post-4349005)
 * HTML validators almost always fail with canvas elements. Not much that can be
   done about that.
 *  Thread Starter [Brent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colourstone/)
 * (@colourstone)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-fix/#post-4349010)
 * No problem.
    Thanks Pippin! Have a great day.

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 * Last reply from: [Brent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colourstone/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-error-fix/#post-4349010)
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