HTML Validation
by Paul Flyer
Creating a website that is error free and standards compliant (well at least as close as possible, I still struggle) provides the following benefits:
- increase liklihood of working across all browsers (but not a guarantee)
- lean clean code - there is nothing worse then creating something and looking back at it months later and thinking “How the hell did I accomplish that?”
- clean code saves on bandwidth
- increases website load speed
My favorite online html validator is provided by Total Validator
Total Validator provides the following services:
- HTML Validation
- Accessibility validation
- Browser Snapshots
- Spellchecker
- Broken Link Checker
The online version of Total Validator will check up to 20 pages at one time. Provided it an email address and it will send you a zip file of the results.
For each page checked, Total Validator displays the amount of errors and warnings(if that option was checked). It then displays the code for each page with each error and warning marked. Total Validator provides anchor links to each error so it is easy to look at one error and then click to go to the next.
Overall, it is a very handy tool and one of the best validators around.
For more information check out my page on website validation.
[tags]html, validation, web, website[/tags]
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