diff --git a/modules/flashy/pages.js b/modules/flashy/pages.js
index 6b46ba5..9771503 100644
--- a/modules/flashy/pages.js
+++ b/modules/flashy/pages.js
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ var pages = function(dbot) {
             res.render('flashy', {
                 'name': dbot.config.name,
                 'colour': colour,
-                'text': req.params.text
+                'text': decodeURIComponent(req.params.text)
             });
         }
     };
diff --git a/views/flashy/flashy.jade b/views/flashy/flashy.jade
index 232b3c3..e472ca6 100644
--- a/views/flashy/flashy.jade
+++ b/views/flashy/flashy.jade
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-doctype html
 html(lang='en')
   head 
     meta(charset='utf-8')
@@ -6,4 +5,6 @@ html(lang='en')
     title #{name} web interface
   body
     div.container
-      blink [ span.flash(style='color: #'+colour+';') #{text} span ]
+      blink [
+        span.flash(style='color: #'+colour+';') #{text}
+        span ]