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Posted by Michael Grant
Michael Grant
1,847 Points

Validate HTML

I went on the validate HTML website. It told me

It told me this:

Error 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.

…ne|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' 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.

Here is the code from Line 7:

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

Michael Grant
Michael Grant
1,847 Points

This is the code from Line 7

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

3 Answers

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,718 Points
Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,718 Points

Hey Michael,

All you have to do is encode the | sign in the URL to a %7C. 

 <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One%7COpen+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,718 Points

Encode spaces to be %20 so "Me 2.jpg" becomes "Me%202.jpg". The best way to avoid this is to not use spaces in your file name.

Michael Grant
Michael Grant
1,847 Points
Michael Grant
Michael Grant
1,847 Points

OK. Thanks. that worked. Also got a validation error for this:

<img src="img/Me 2.jpg" alt="Photograph of Michael Grant" class="profile-photo">

Error: Line 28, Column 88: Bad value img/Me 2.jpg for attribute src on element img: Illegal character in path segment: not a URL code point.

Michael Grant
Michael Grant
1,847 Points
Michael Grant
Michael Grant
1,847 Points

OK. Thank you again.

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,718 Points

You're welcome!