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Ashley Calder
Courses Plus Student 1,461 Pointswhat's wrong with my code?
when I run my 'index.html' file through the w3 validator, it comes up with an error. See image attached (the error is at the bottom). does anyone know what this means? thanks!
5 Answers
James Barnett
39,199 PointsThe issue is with the Google Web Font URL.
The | character is invalid in a URL, so to encode the | character change it to %7c
Alex Cawley
9,291 PointsLooks like the href on your font link to google fonts is wrong. Just go back to the site and recopy and paste, you might have missed the last letter or something.
Ashley Calder
Courses Plus Student 1,461 Pointsthanks, i tried it but it still comes up with the same error! Does the highlighted red '>' on the w3 validator mean that it's got a problem with that aspect of the code?
Ashley Calder
Courses Plus Student 1,461 Points
bobkingstone
27,869 Points
Victor Saltanov
2,226 PointsI had the same problem just a few moments ago, with some help i got the answer, change the + symbol to %20 and the | symbol to %7c and it will work fine. =]