If you have ever encountered the "The reference to entity must end with the ';' delimiter" error while working with HTML, you know how frustrating it can be.
This error can occur when you use certain special characters incorrectly in your code.
One such character is the ampersand (&), which has a special meaning in HTML and needs to be encoded using an entity code. In this blog post, we will discuss how to fix this error in HTML.
The error message "The reference to entity must end with the ';' delimiter" usually appears when you try to use the ampersand character in your HTML code without encoding it. For example, if you use the ampersand character in a font link like this:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@200;300&family=Karla:wght@500&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
You will get the error message, which indicates that you need to encode the ampersand character using the entity code "&". Here's how the corrected code should look:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@200;300&family=Karla:wght@500&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
As you can see, we have replaced the "&" character with "&" in both font links, and added a semicolon (;) after the "y" in "family". This fixes the error and ensures that the code is valid HTML.
In summary, if you ever encounter the "The reference to entity must end with the ';' delimiter" error in HTML, it usually means that you need to encode the ampersand character using the entity code "&". Simply replace the "&" character with "&" and add a semicolon (;) after it, and your code should be valid HTML.