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Posted by Deborah Denenfeld
Deborah Denenfeld
3,357 Points

Getting two errors in my html validation. What is wrong w ending >

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

Here is the 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'>

Richard Nicholls
Richard Nicholls
1,301 Points

The same happened to me and I couldn't find out what was wrong. I just copied and pasted the line from google fonts and no matter how many times i did it it still said the same as yours. I have since done a similar task on another tutorial and it was fine

2 Answers

Ryan Field
PLUS
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points
Ryan Field
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points

It's an issue with Google Fonts URLs using the pipe character (|). If you replace it with %7C, it should validate properly.

@import url( http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One%7COpen+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800);
Deborah Denenfeld
Deborah Denenfeld
3,357 Points

Thank you, Ryan. Weird that this tutorial asks us to do something that can't work. I've wasted a lot of time on this.

Ivan Spodeneyko
Ivan Spodeneyko
6,147 Points
Ivan Spodeneyko
Ivan Spodeneyko
6,147 Points

This does not work for me! That does:

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

PS: I didn't figure out how @import works