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13,449 PointsGoogle 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
11,940 PointsI'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
11,940 PointsOk, 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
13,449 PointsI 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
13,449 PointsAnd by validating I mean w3c validating