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Start your free trialJacob Thomson
757 PointsHelp understanding why my html is invalid?
I copied and pasted my html from my 'index.html' file into http://validator.w3.org, and i received an error.
Error Line 7, Column 181: Bad value http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Swanky+and+Moo+Moo|Roboto+Condensed:400italic,400,700|Open+Sans:400italic,800italic,400,800 for attribute href on element link: Illegal character in query: not a URL code point. ā¦00,700|Open+Sans:400italic,800italic,400,800' 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.
This is the html it did not agree with, what do i need to change for it to be valid?
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Swanky+and+Moo+Moo|Roboto+Condensed:400italic,400,700|Open+Sans:400italic,800italic,400,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
Thank you
3 Answers
Alex Heil
53,547 Pointshey jacob, you don't have to change anything actually. The error message you receive for the google fonts is because of the "|" character used in it. you can verify this easily by removing these 2 characters in the w3c validator and you'll see that the code will pass.
hope that helps and have a nice day ;)
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsHi Jacob,
The vertical bar is considered an unsafe character in a url. Unsafe characters should always be url encoded.
You can replace all occurrences of it with %7C
This will fix the error.
Jacob Thomson
757 PointsChampion Alex Heil!
Thank you