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

Posted by Elise Witte
Elise Witte
1,345 Points

I keep getting this error message when I check my code: Line 7, Column 144: Bad value http://fonts.googleapis.com/cs

Line 7 column 144 has a "bad value for attribute href on element link: illegal character in query: not a URL code point. "

It tells me that characters should be represented in NFC and spaces should be escaped as %20

I don't know how I entered in the code wrong when I just copied and pasted it as instructed in the video. What am I doing wrong??

2 Answers

Martin Young
Martin Young
10,329 Points
Martin Young
Martin Young
10,329 Points

Hi Elise,

I hit this too. If your font url contains a '|' character, try changing it to '%7C' to make this a valid URL character.

For example:

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

becomes

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

You can see the difference between 'Changa+One' and the 'Open+Sans' parts of the URL.

Cheers, Martin

Radu Ioan Stochita
Radu Ioan Stochita
3,558 Points

Thank you, Martin! You helped me too.

Elise Witte
Elise Witte
1,345 Points
Elise Witte
Elise Witte
1,345 Points

Yep that was the issue! thank you very much!!