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Posted by Bappy Golder
Bappy Golder
13,449 Points

Google font validation issue

I am using Google font in one of my work. It seems it is not validating. Do I need to fix that? If so how?

Thanks again. @bappygolder

4 Answers

notf0und
notf0und
11,940 Points
notf0und
notf0und
11,940 Points

I'm not sure what you mean by not validating. Can you include the relevant sections of HTML and CSS code?

Should look something like this:

HTML

<head>
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Domine|Lato:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
</head>

CSS

body {
    font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif;
}
notf0und
notf0und
11,940 Points
notf0und
notf0und
11,940 Points

Ok, I solved it!

You need to url encode the pipe characters ' | ' . Replacing them with %7c will make validation successful.

<head>
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Megrim%7cOpen+Sans:300italic,400italic,600italic,300,400,800%7cOpen+Sans+Condensed:300,300italic,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
</head>
Bappy Golder
Bappy Golder
13,449 Points
Bappy Golder
Bappy Golder
13,449 Points

I am getting the following warning:

Line 7, Column 187: Bad value http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Megrim|Open+Sans+Condensed:300,300italic,700|Open+Sans:300italic,400italic,600italic,400,300,600 for attribute href on element link: Illegal character in query: not a URL code point. ā€¦s:300italic,400italic,600italic,400,300,600' 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.

for my html in line 7 which is:

<head>
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Megrim|Open+Sans+Condensed:300,300italic,700|Open+Sans:300italic,400italic,600italic,400,300,600' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
</head>
Bappy Golder
Bappy Golder
13,449 Points
Bappy Golder
Bappy Golder
13,449 Points

And by validating I mean w3c validating