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Christian Herron
Courses Plus Student 1,058 PointsError message in the google font section
I keep getting this message from the validation test and can't figure out how to fix it. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
message: Line 7, Column 143: 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. ā¦e|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.
Here is my html, a little before and after where my error is suppose to be:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css? family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
5 Answers
Mintautas Kiulkys
4,368 PointsJust checked with validator and it passed. Try using this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One%7COpen+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
Christian Herron
Courses Plus Student 1,058 PointsI see it now. thanks, I'll try it out.
Christian Herron
Courses Plus Student 1,058 PointsThanks! Not sure why it worked but that fixed it :)
Mintautas Kiulkys
4,368 PointsIf you replace the | with %7C it should go away.
Justin Wiswell
9,471 PointsIt looks like you have a space in the URL where the is broken into two lines, right after css? and before family=
Mintautas Kiulkys
4,368 PointsSorry about that :) You should see the code now.
Sullivan Taylor Begbie
4,219 PointsJust had the same problem. Thank you for solving.
Christian Herron
Courses Plus Student 1,058 PointsChristian Herron
Courses Plus Student 1,058 Pointsneither of those worked. It has the > highlighted in red of this part of the code type='text/css'> if that helps any.