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HTML How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Website Testing

Brendan McCarthy
Brendan McCarthy
2,854 Points
Posted by Brendan McCarthy
Brendan McCarthy
2,854 Points

"Invalid Markup Validation" on validator.w3.org

Hi Treehouse,

This is the error I received when testing my code along with Nick in this tutorial:

Line 7, Column 142: 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. …ne|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.

It seems to be a syntax issue coming from the CSS link from Google Fonts. How can I solve this issue? Thanks in advance for your help.

Best, Brendan

1 Answer

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Brendan,

The vertical bar | in the url is considered an unsafe character and should be url encoded.

Replace the vertical bar with %7C and that should get rid of the error.