diff --git a/qsgen2 b/qsgen2
index e63bfa9..6ec509c 100755
--- a/qsgen2
+++ b/qsgen2
@@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ function _link() {
       local modified_link="<a href=\"${url_dest}\">${url_txt}"
       if [[ ${url_dest} =~ ^https?:// ]]; then
         # Add external link icon for external URLs
-        modified_link+=" <img class=\"exticon\" alt=\"External site icon\" src=\"/images/ext-black-top.svg\" width=\"12\" />"
+        modified_link+="<img class=\"exticon\" alt=\"External site icon\" src=\"/images/ext-black-top.svg\" width=\"12\" />"
       fi
       modified_link+="</a>"
       line=${line//"#link ${url_full}"/${modified_link}}