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Viraj Kokane
Viraj Kokane
17,531 Points
Posted by Viraj Kokane
Viraj Kokane
17,531 Points

Please help me to resolve the error in index.html

When I checked my index.html in w3 validator it says: Line 7, Column 138: Bad value http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700 for attribute href on element link: Illegal character in query: not a URL code point. …ga+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> Syntax of URL: Any URL. For example: /hello, #canvas, or http://example.org/. Characters should be represented in NFC and spaces should be escaped as %20. Warning Line 27, Column 15: Section lacks heading. Consider using h2-h6 elements to add identifying headings to all sections. <section> I am not getting at it.Please help.

Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points

Can you please post your HTML-code here so we can take a look at it?

Viraj Kokane
Viraj Kokane
17,531 Points
Viraj Kokane
Viraj Kokane
17,531 Points

Open this link and you will find my whole code: https://w.trhou.se/snlm3sqk10

2 Answers

Ryan Field
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Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,241 Points
Ryan Field
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,241 Points

Hi, Viraj. The W3C validator prefers non-letter characters to be represented as NFC (so %20 for spaces, etc.), and the pipe character (|) is what's causing issues here. Changing it to %7C will fix your validation errors, in this case.

Viraj Kokane
Viraj Kokane
17,531 Points
Viraj Kokane
Viraj Kokane
17,531 Points

I am still not getting it. Please can you send the correct url so that I can get it.

Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points
Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points

Hello Viraj,

as Ryan Field correctly mentions, you need to replace your pipe character | with %7C. So make the following change on line 7 in your code:

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

The reason the validator is complaining is because the | sign isn't a valid UTF-8 character. Here is a full list of UTF-8 encoded characters:

http://www.utf8-chartable.de/