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Andrew Youngwerth
Andrew Youngwerth
10,188 Points
Posted by Andrew Youngwerth
Andrew Youngwerth
10,188 Points

W3C gives me an error

Apparently it doesn't like this line: link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Orbitron:400,700|Aldrich' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' (I took the arrows (<>) out because it would hide the code)

Specifically it says "Illegal character in query: not a URL code point". When i preview the code it works fine. Should I be worried?

Andrew Youngwerth
Andrew Youngwerth
10,188 Points
Andrew Youngwerth
Andrew Youngwerth
10,188 Points

Thank you for the fast responses!

2 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

The | character is invalid in a URL, so to encode the | character change it to %7c

source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22469221/1756132s

Adrian Scott
Adrian Scott
8,284 Points
Adrian Scott
Adrian Scott
8,284 Points

Hi Andrew,

Google fonts are known to break the HTML5 validation, because the urls are not encoded.

You need to encode the vertical bar |

I hope that helps :)