Newsletter for 11/16/03: Is your site W3C valid HTML?
Hello
Is your HTML coding strict? This is becoming increasingly important with the evolution of the internet and its browsers. When trying to write a cross browser compatible site, it is extremely important to know that your sites code is clean or errorless and the same goes for CSS for those of you who are going down the CSS style sheet route. I am writing this to tell you of an extremely useful tool I came across a while back that will check your code is strict. You may seen the ads on others sites or on Matrix28. The service is provided by w3.org (The world wide consortium). The tool can be found at validator.w3c.org. All you have to do is enter the URL of your page or you can even upload a file from your hard drive. Try it and you will be amazed at the help it can be. Even if you have been sat there for hours asking your self why that table does line up etc. the validator will tell you and it is probably because you haven't closed a TD tag that you would never spot normaly.
There is a more advanced interface located at http://validator.w3.org/file-upload.html or http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html were you can specify the encoding and type of your document along with other options such as show source, show outline, show parse tree, exclude attributes, validate error pages and Verbose Output.
So you see that this is a very powerful tool. Let me know how you get on and we may even include you in next weeks newsletter along with your site.
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