Space at the end of title attribute in 'a' tag

Question

I have a link like this:

<a title="Lorem ipsum " href="http://example.com">Lorem ipsum</a>

Important is the space at the end of title attribute. If this link comes to the browser, it will change to this:

<a title="Lorem ipsum " &nbsp;href="http://example.com">Lorem ipsum</a>

This is not valid link so it do not work. It is not a JavaScript problem, it is not working in Firefox 44.0.2 and Chrome 48.0.2564.116 (64-bit). W3C validator throws an error saying that "Attribute href not allowed on element a at this point.". Why is a space at the end of title attribute a problem? It was working a while ago.

Answer 1

This <a title="Lorem ipsum " href="http://example.com">Lorem ipsum</a> works fine for me. I wouldnt say it was JS, or anything like that, you may want to check the surroundings tags (div/h1,h2,p etc), make sure they are all correct. This is the only thing it could be.

Try placing <a title="Lorem ipsum " href="http://example.com">Lorem ipsum</a> in a html document on its own and seeing what the inspect comes back as, as it was fine for me.

Hope this helps.