HTML Validators?

HTML & CSS
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Are there any free online HTML validators to check the whole website in one go please?

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Hi there Dez,

I don’t know the answer to your question
and cannot see the point of it. :wonky:

You will, I presume, correct the errors one
document at a time rather than work on
them all simultaneously. :winky:

Perhaps I am missing some subtle requirement though. :shifty:

coothead

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Are you talking about this? → https://validator.w3.org/

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That is a tool many of us know well, but it will validate one url at a time. What I believe the OP wants is some kind of crawler which will go through the whole site and flag which pages need some attention.
A web search does return some results for such tools, but I have not used any of these, so can’t vouch for any.
I could see the usefulness of such a tool. With a site with very many pages, doing one at a time may be tedious. If a crawler would just point out the pages that had problems, it could save a lot of time.

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Totally got it one :thumbsup: I have been using the other one mentioned here, for about 8 years, but it’s a tad tedious to go through each page of a 30 page website, for example. If anyone does know of one, please post back. Thanks.

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I use the Web Developer Toolbar on Firefox. One of the options is to Validate HTML (or CSS) for the page you’re on. It still requires doing one page at a time, of course, but it does make it a bit easier to do.

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      As I am old and pedantic, rather than young and impatient,
      I validate documents as I code them and most definitely
      before publishing them.

      Call me a smart arse if you like. :relieved:

coothead

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How about we just call you smart and maybe a bit self-disciplined.

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As do I. The toolbar also has a “Validate Local HTML” option.

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So do I, and I’ve also got a

Firebug extension to validate HTML.

coothead

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and not forgetting…

  • Validate CSS
  • Validate Feed
  • Validate Links
  • Validate Local CSS

coothead

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[off topic]
Google Webmaster Tools-> Search Appearance-> HTML Improvements

does not validate but does report page anomalies which will affect your site.
[/off topic]

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I tend to use the HTML validator Firefox addon http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ - whenever I view source via Firefox it automatically validates the page and reports any errors/warnings. Again only one page at a time though.

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Maybe using the “Validate entire site” option?

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/

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That does it, but doesn’t do html5.

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http://validator.w3.org/ is the free HTML validator to check the whole Website in one go.

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I use the W3C validator quite often, but I have never noticed an option to use it for an entire site “in one go”.

How is that done?

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Same here, I’ve never seen a way to validate the whole site that way?

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