HTML table validator

HTML table validator tool or software

[rezash]

Hi,
Can someone please tell e too to validate HTML tables, are tags are complete and nested? a tool that shows missed tags in big thtml table pages.

thanks,
Reza

[Robin_reala]

[validator.w3.org ], although this will validate your entire page.

[encyclo]

The W3C validator is a bit limited in this capacity if you are using HTML (not (XHTML), however, as

</tr>

and

</td>

are both optional in HTML, but it is a bad idea to leave them out as this can cause browser inconsistencies (old Netscape versions could leave out large chinks of the table if there were missing end tags, for example. So this is valid HTML:

<table>
<tr>
<td><p>text
<table>
<tr>
<td><p>text
</table>
</table>

You could force the validator to validate the page as XHTML and ignore the other errors, but that's awkward at best.

I believe that one of the wysiwyg editors can do a proper validation - perhaps Dreamweaver? Has anyone got any other ideas on this?

[rezash]

Thanks for feedback, any more tools?

[mcwebedit]

Yes, Dreamweaver will validate it and will tell you that you have not closed the td and also that it is optional in html.
LIFT will also validate tables. [usablenet.com...]

[mcwebedit]

I forgot to say - also ARealValidator [arealvalidator.com...] is very good, and HTMLTidy [w3.org...] is good.

[bruhaha]

If you want to check a file (or a batch of files) locally, and you are on Windows, try CSE HTML Validator at [htmlvalidator.com ]

[tbear]

The old arachnophilia 4.0 editor will also validate tables (but it ain't rocket science).. ;)