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I have now modified the site considerably, adding new sections, features etc, all running off the phpBB engine. I would like to validate my HTML and see where I'm going wrong (because I'm sure I have!)
Ideally, I would like a piece of (free!) software that would do the job locally, or even something that would run in PHP/Perl on my testing server.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance,
The best way would be to visit the WWW Consortium [w3.org] and read up on the HTML specifications and relate that to your code.
The quick and easy way is to use either the W3C Vaildator [validator.w3.org] or Brett's HTML Vaildator [searchengineworld.com] on Search Engine World. Both will give you a list of errors to help get the code right.
Onya
Woz
The W3C HTML Validation Service [validator.w3.org] source code [validator.w3.org] is also available.
Andreas
>> Brett's HTML Validator on Search Engine World <<
Umm, that is WebMasterWorld I do believe.
Not at all, follow the link above.
Onya
Woz
>> Not at all, follow the link above. <<
Ah, I see, it is Jim's Search Engine Forums, nothing to do with Brett at all. Brett runs Web Master World - there is no such place as Search Engine World.
The W3C HTML and CSS validators, can either look at an online website and generate a report of errors, or you can upload the file to the validator for it to be checked. So you can validate before you publish, but this is still an online activity.
I find a desktop application useful since I want to validate before I upload a page to my website.
Indeed. As it happens, I have a real-world IP for my development workstation and so I can use validation services that rely on having a URL. However, even if you can't, you can still use validator.w3.org, because it has a file upload option. Not only that, but as someone here pointed out to me not long ago, Opera has a feature that lets you validate the source of any document you are looking at, using the w3.org validator. The hotkey is Ctrl-Alt-V, or there is a menu option under the right-click menu->frame->validate source.
Actually the link I gave above has nothing to do with SEF at all.
Search Engine World does exist and has done so for many years. It is the progenitor of WebmasterWorld.
Onya
Woz
[edited by: Woz at 11:34 pm (utc) on Oct. 13, 2002]
since I want to validate before I upload a page to my website
That is why you can install both validators on your local webserver.
HTMLTidy [...] makes suggestions on what to change
...but does not validate your HTML.
