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Posted by Jamison Imhoff
Jamison Imhoff
12,460 Points

Issue with wc3 verification

I was following along with the how to build a website course and at the section when you go to http://validator.w3.org/ to verify the code it says that there is an error with this line of code: 

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,700,800,400' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

I am not sure what is wrong with it... I thought I had it the same as the course, but it was not flagged when he input the code...

Help?

2 Answers

Micah Kline
Micah Kline
17,831 Points

It has issues with the | symbol check out this page on stackoverflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22466913/google-fonts-url-break-html5-validation-on-w3-org

Micah Kline
Micah Kline
17,831 Points

The accepted answer says encode the "|" symbol to %7C

Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points
Wayne Priestley
Wayne Priestley
19,579 Points

Hi Jamison,

It's a problem with the url encoding (a bug), you have to replace | with %7C like this. 

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One %7C Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,700,800,400' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

Hope this helps.