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Nikhil Khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal
9,371 Points
Posted by Nikhil Khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal
9,371 Points

W3 validator showing error in my code about google fonts

Error: Bad value http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat|Lora|Dosis|Sigmar+One for attribute href on element link: Illegal character in query: not a URL code point. From line 7, column 7; to line 7, column 124 s">↩ <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat|Lora|Dosis|Sigmar+One' 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.

Ingebjørg Synnøve Thoresen
Ingebjørg Synnøve Thoresen
2,131 Points

Hai Nix,

I got the following answere from Samson Tudor:

"It is a problem with google fonts code, you must change the break character " | " to utf-8 " %7c" and if in future you will use a link that contains " & " you must convert it to html " &amp ".

" | " --> " %7c "

" & " --> " &amp "

The initial code will give you an error: http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400,700,700italic,800,400italic

but if you change the | to %7c it will be valid HTML5: http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One%7cOpen+Sans:400,700,700italic,800,400italic

I hope it helps, Best Regards"

Ingebjørg J;_D))

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Ingebjørg Synnøve Thoresen
Ingebjørg Synnøve Thoresen
2,131 Points

Hi Nix,

I got the following answere from Samson Tudor:

"It is a problem with google fonts code, you must change the break character " | " to utf-8 " %7c" and if in future you will use a link that contains " & " you must convert it to html " &amp ".

" | " --> " %7c "

" & " --> " &amp "

The initial code will give you an error: http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400,700,700italic,800,400italic

but if you change the | to %7c it will be valid HTML5: http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One%7cOpen+Sans:400,700,700italic,800,400italic

I hope it helps, Best Regards"

Ingebjørg J;_D))