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Validator check error

Hi, Dear TreeHouse Fellows

I uploaded my index.html to validator through direct input by copying pasting

and it gave me one error as the follows:

" 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 that it is having problem with the fonts I copy and pasted from google, is that something to pay attention to?

Thanks

Shen Jie Lin

8 Answers

Well, it is working fine as I see here. Don't pay attention to everything the HTML validator says, nowadays most of the work we are doing is by hacking our way here and there so...

Can you post a copy of your index.html page? Use a service such as http://jsbin.com/

The output looks okay when I post on http://jsbin.com/

However, here is a copy of my index.html code

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Shen Jie Lin | Engineer</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/responsive.css"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale-1.0"> </head> <body> <header> <a href="index.html" id="logo"> <h1>Shen Jie Lin</h1> <h2>Engineer</h2> </a> <nav> <ul> <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li> <Li><a href="about.html">About</a></Li> <Li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></Li> </ul> </nav> </header> <div id="wrapper"> <section> <ul id="gallery"> <Li> <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p> </a> </Li> <Li> <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p> </a> </Li> <Li> <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p> </a> </Li> <Li> <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p> </a> </Li> <Li> <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p> </a> </Li> </ul> </section> <footer> <a href="http://twitter.com/nickrp"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shenjie.lin"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo" class="social-icon"></a> <p>© 2014 Shen Jie Lin.</p> </footer> </div> </body> </html>

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Shen Jie Lin | Engineer</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/responsive.css"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale-1.0"> </head> <body> <header> <a href="index.html" id="logo"> <h1>Shen Jie Lin</h1> <h2>Engineer</h2> </a> <nav> <ul> <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li> <Li><a href="about.html">About</a></Li> <Li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></Li> </ul> </nav> </header> <div id="wrapper"> <section> <ul id="gallery"> <Li> <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p> </a> </Li> <Li> <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p> </a> </Li> <Li> <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p> </a> </Li> <Li> <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p> </a> </Li> <Li> <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg"> <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p> </a> </Li> </ul> </section> <footer> <a href="http://twitter.com/nickrp"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shenjie.lin"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo" class="social-icon"></a> <p>© 2014 Shen Jie Lin.</p> </footer> </div> </body> </html>

hmmm, I think I am not exactly sure how to post my code on here, sorry im pretty newbie.

since copy past comes out wrong

okay I think I know what you mean now

my output http://jsbin.com/jujibeja/1/

and codecast http://jsbin.com/jujibeja/1/watch

I see, thanks lots Zoro!

appreciate your quickness in answering my questions

:)

Hi Shen JIE LIN,

You want to url encode the vertical bar |

Replace it with %7C and that should get rid of your error.