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David DeWeaver
David DeWeaver
3,701 Points
Posted by David DeWeaver
David DeWeaver
3,701 Points

One irritating Validation Error- Bad fonts?

When I take index.html to validator.w3.org, I always get one validation error that reads:

Line 7, Column 142: Bad value http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800 for attribute href on element link: Illegal character in query: not a URL code point.

Apparently when I included the Google fonts in my html file I did it incorrectly, but I revisited Nick's earlier video where he first showed us how to include fonts and I followed his directions. My code (and his) reads:

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

Can anyone provide advice on where the error is and how to fix it?

3 Answers

Colin Bell
Colin Bell
29,679 Points
Colin Bell
Colin Bell
29,679 Points

Replace the bar character that separates your two fonts with %7c

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One%7COpen+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
                                                        <!-- ^ Here -->
David DeWeaver
David DeWeaver
3,701 Points
David DeWeaver
David DeWeaver
3,701 Points

Thank you Colin! I would never have caught that error. Does the | symbol never work in html?

Colin Bell
Colin Bell
29,679 Points
Colin Bell
Colin Bell
29,679 Points

It's not a utf-8 character, so any time it's in the head - before the character set is declared - the validator will freak out.

At least I'm pretty sure, haha.

Vadim Dubkov
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Vadim Dubkov
Courses Plus Student 849 Points
Vadim Dubkov
Vadim Dubkov
Courses Plus Student 849 Points

Yeah, if you have the same problem, just change your '|' symbol in this line on '%7C'. That's the point!