Title: Bad value mailto
Last modified: June 12, 2019

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# Bad value mailto

 *  Resolved [lauratraveler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lauratraveler/)
 * (@lauratraveler)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-value-mailto/)
 * Hi,
    When validating the HTML with W3, I get this error.
 * > Bad value mailto:?subject=text&body=link for attribute href on element a: Illegal
   > character in query: space is not allowed.
 * How can I fix this?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Contributor [iova.mihai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iovamihai/)
 * (@iovamihai)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-value-mailto/#post-11681049)
 * Hey [@lauratraveler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lauratraveler/),
 * Thank you for reporting this issue. There’s no direct way of fixing this without
   modifying the plugin’s code.
 * An update will be available though next week with a fix.
 * All the best,
    Mihai

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-value-mailto/#post-11681049)
 * Status: resolved