diff --git a/themes/42/layouts/_markup/render-link.html b/themes/42/layouts/_markup/render-link.html
index 6f01de92..d701c004 100644
--- a/themes/42/layouts/_markup/render-link.html
+++ b/themes/42/layouts/_markup/render-link.html
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@
 {{- $param := $aff.param -}}
 {{- $value := $aff.value -}}
 {{- $isAffiliated = true -}}
-{{- if $query }}
+{{- if $query -}}
 {{- $newURL = printf "%s://%s%s?%s&%s=%s" $parsed.Scheme $host $path $query $param $value -}}
-{{- else }}
+{{- else -}}
 {{- $newURL = printf "%s://%s%s?%s=%s" $parsed.Scheme $host $path $param $value -}}
-{{- end }}
+{{- end -}}
 {{- end -}}
 {{- $titlePrefix := "" -}}
 {{- if $isAffiliated -}}
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 {{- end -}}
 <a href="{{ $newURL }}" title="{{ $titlePrefix }}{{ .Title }}"
    {{- if $isExternal -}} rel="noreferrer"{{- end -}}
-   {{- if gt (len $classes) 0 -}} class="{{ delimit $classes " " }}"{{- end -}}>
+   {{- if gt (len $classes) 0 -}} class="{{ delimit $classes ` ` }}"{{- end -}}>
     {{- .Text | safeHTML -}}
 </a>
+{{- /* */ -}}
\ No newline at end of file