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I received an error at the WC3 markup service relating to my google font choice.

Line 7, Column 173: Bad value http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,300,400italic,700,700italic,900|Alegreya:400italic,700italic,400,700,900 for attribute href on element link: Illegal character in query: not a URL code point. …900|Alegreya:400italic,700italic,400,700,900' 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.

3 Answers

Change the pipe character ( | ) to it's UTF-8 character: %7C.

This worked. Thank you!

I had the same error - thank you for the fix Bryan H!

Can you post your code?

<link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One%7cOpen+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">