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The url is for a fairly consistent test page at our dev site. W3C http://tinyurl.com/6ehmxk Bad value,,, for attribute href on element a: ILLEGAL_CHARACTER in FRAGMENT It is noting the closing bracket as a problem for this url Store_Code=CPO"> I am using doctype override feature of your form. # <a href="https://beta.handmade-paper.us/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=1e2d5d0f339cb704d2411cd7881f0173&Screen=LOGN&#38;Order=0&#38;Store_Code=CPO">My Account</a>
The "#38;" are the issue here. # is used in URIs to determine an fragment within the URI, e,g: http://example.com/resource#go_there but the fragment cannot have the "#" character in it. As a result, the validator complains (as it should) when seeing two of those in a URL.