HTML validators

are they worth it?

[fashezee]

To validate your HTML, do you use a particular software or any online utilities?

I am not sure whether I should invest in an HTML validator such as: htmlvalidator.com

What are the pros and cons in using such a software?

[Birdman]

You can validate your html for free at W3C [w3c.org]

Actually, the validator is here [validator.w3.org].

[txbakers]

are they worth it?

absolutely.

[pendanticist]

Google 'validator' one time and you'll have many from which to play with. I've used one on that first results page for several years now and like it very much. Relatively cheap, flexible and the gentleman who wrote the app is very approachable if you have a problem. I had one, two weeks after I bought it.

Given that the prices range from low-end to high-end and no matter where your personal economics are, odds are there's one out there for you.

All you gotta do now, is find it.

Pendanticist.

[g1smd]

Check your HTML at: [validator.w3.org...]

and your CSS at: [jigsaw.w3.org...]

Definately worth doing. It will find all sorts of tag typos, nesting errors, things opened but not closed, or closed in the wrong order, warn you about browser specific code, wrong value attributes, attributes with missing quotes, missing MIME types on scripts and styles, and a whole load of other useful stuff.