[html5] failure to validate mail link?

[Henri Sivonen]

"designer" <designer at gwelanmor-internet.co.uk> wrote:

> Sorry if this is obvious, but a page I'm working on won't validate
> because 
> of the mail link.
> 
> The validation error message is:
> 
>  Bad value mailto:designer at gwelanmor-internet.co.uk?subject=problem
> with 
> RSPCA site
> for attribute href on element a: WHITESPACE in QUERY.
> 
> the cut and pasted code is as follows:
> 
> <dd>N.B. If you have found a link which doesn't work, do please
>         <a
> href="mailto:designer at gwelanmor-internet.co.uk?subject=problem 
> with RSPCA site">TELL US</a>
>         us about it</dd>
> 
> What am I doing wrong here? I've googled, but to no avail.

According to the URI spec, you should escape space as %20 in URLs.

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Henri Sivonen
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