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Posted by Patrick Vu
Patrick Vu
824 Points

Validator.w3.org states that I have a bad value on my Hyperlink I got from Google Fonts. Can someone help me why it is?

Line 7, Column 110: Bad value http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans|Changa+One for attribute href on element link: Illegal character in query: not a URL code point. …ogleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans|Changa+One' 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.

3 Answers

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

Hey Patrick, there's some notes near the bottom of the video which explain a little about this:

Validation Errors

You may encounter validation errors when using the W3C validators. For example, in this project, the vertical pipes in a Google Font URL might cause an error because they're not escaped using HTML entities. It's a good idea to fix as many errors as possible, because more errors can mean increasingly unpredictable cross-browser results.

And here's the solution, which involves simply replacing the pipe symbol " | " with %7C. Below is an example for you.

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

Thank you for the solution and quick reply Dustin!

David Coyle
David Coyle
2,126 Points
David Coyle
David Coyle
2,126 Points

thanks was starting to get worried that I had missed something:)