HTML Validation Errors for Social Media Share links (Warning: unescaped & or unknown

[lainenickl]

I created a template that has Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn share butotns (which share an event page). It works correctly however when I test it, however, when I do the HTML validation I get the following errors:

line 582 column 171 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&url"
line 585 column 62 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&url"
line 582 column 7 - Warning: <a> escaping malformed URI reference.

Here's the code being referenced:

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<a href="http://twitter.com/share?text=Outreach%20Marketing%20Virtual%20Summit %20is%20back!%20Join%20us%20April%2028%20for%20thi s%20free,%20all-day,%20online event!&url=http://www.grouphigh.com/outreach-marketing-summit"

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<a href="http://twitter.com/share?text=Outreach%20Marketing%20Virtual%20Summit %20is%20back!%20Join%20us%20April%2028%20for%20thi s%20free,%20all-day,%20online event!&url=http://www.grouphigh.com/outreach-marketing-summit"

Any idea how to get this HTML validated? The validation is through Marketo.

[TennzyAlyn]

Hm, sounds complicated. Have you solved it?

[AdmontYanko]

It looks like the '&' in the URL might be causing the trouble. Try replacing it with '%26'. Also, for '&' in the text, use '&.' This helps with proper HTML escaping.