HTML Validation Extensions for Firefox
Maintaining web standards can become a chore. However, a couple of Firefox extensions make life a little easier when trying to validate the HTML of a website.
First is HTML Validator. This extension is based on HTML Tidy. I have read some articles that suggest HTML Tidy does not always interpret the rules of the W3C correctly. While, it may not be perfect, HTML Tidy and this little extension do help.
When installed, HTML Validator puts a small icon in the status bar on the lower right side. Navigate to a web page. Once it is loaded, the icon will display a green check mark (meaning there are no errors and no warnings within the HTML on that page), an exclamation point within a yellow triangle (there are warnings on this page), or a red circle with a white “X” (there are errors on this page).
Double clicking on the icon will open up a window containing the source code for the web page. The errors and warning will be highlighted.
Right clicking the icon pops up the settings menu as well as the “Cleanup” function. Cleanup will run HTML TIDY and produce clean code (of course if the web site has dynamic content, cutting and pasting the new code over the old code won’t work).
All in all its at least a handy warning signal when self-navigating one’s own website.
The second extension is Total Validator. Total Validator is a web service that provides HTML Validation, Acessibillity Standards, Broken Link Checker, Spellcheck and a browser screenshot service. I am going to write a separate post on Total Validator later, but suffice it to say that I have been looking for a site like this for a long time (excellent validation services at a LOW price). While the plugin only checks one page at a time it is still a handy tool. (The website itself can look at up to 20 pages at a time and a desktop version of the tool is available that will scan complete websites. The desktop tool is reasonably priced.)
Anyway, the extension works similarly to HTML Validator in that it places a small icon in the status bar. Right clicking the icon pops up the the setup menu. Left clicking runs Total Validator on the page being viewed. A new tab is opened up and the results are displayed. Awesome stuff. Where can you find a service that will provide all FIVE of those functions for free? Total indeed!
Using both of these firefox extensions will help save time and energy in keeping a website clean and up to standards.
[tags]firefox, validation[/tags]
Posted by Paul Flyer on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 in Firefox
firefoXtensions Says:
July 7th, 2006 at 8:41 am
Herramientas para validación HTML
Recommended Web Tools le dedica un post a dos herramientas para validación de código HTML: HTML Validator (en la gráfica) y Total Validator. Ambas, explican, hacen bien su trabajo, aunque la segunda es parte de un proyecto mayor que incluye un ser…
sadauskas Says:
April 15th, 2009 at 4:36 am
I just finished one extension for Firefox which could perfectly cooperate with HTML Validator. It crawls through web domain and can validate whole domain at once togather with broken links checking and gathering other informations about processed web sites. By now it is only in sandbox, so it woud be very helpfull, if you could test and write some reviews on it.
It is available to download here: Web Doc processor
Thanks very much, I hope you will enjoy it.
martin sadauskas Says:
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:41 am
Please try also extension Web Doc processor available on web site:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11485
It gathers several information about each processed site.
When you will try it, please provide some feedback in a form od review, so I could make it better.