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Jacob Thomson
Jacob Thomson
757 Points
Posted by Jacob Thomson
Jacob Thomson
757 Points

Help 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
Alex Heil
53,547 Points
Alex Heil
Alex Heil
53,547 Points

hey 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
PLUS
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi 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.