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Posted by Seth Leonard
Seth Leonard
2,587 Points

link to google fonts is not valid

I receive this error using validator.w3.org I get the same error when checking the project file download. Why do I get this error and how do I fix it?

Validation Output: 1 Error

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 IRI reference: Any URL. For example: /hello, #canvas, or http://example.org/. Characters should be represented in NFC and spaces should be escaped as %20.

4 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

The issue is with the Google Web Font URL.

The | character is invalid in a URL, so to encode the | character change it to %7c

source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22469221/1756132s

Seth Leonard
Seth Leonard
2,587 Points
Seth Leonard
Seth Leonard
2,587 Points

Thanks you two! That's exactly what I needed!

rahi
rahi
4,714 Points
rahi
rahi
4,714 Points

James Barnett Thank you. Worked for me.