HTML Validators?

[Dez]

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

[coothead]

Hi there Dez,

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

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

Perhaps I am missing some subtle requirement though.

coothead

[Pepster64]

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

[SamA74]

@Pepster64

Are you talking this

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.

[Dez]

@SamA74

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.

Totally got it one 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.

[TechnoBear]

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.

[coothead]

 
 
 
      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.

coothead

[ronpat]

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

[TechnoBear]

@coothead

I validate documents as I code them and most definitely
before publishing them.

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

[coothead]

@TechnoBear

I use the Web Developer Toolbar on Firefox.

So do I, and I’ve also got a

Firebug extension to validate HTML.

coothead

[coothead]

@TechnoBear

The toolbar also has a “Validate Local HTML” option

and not forgetting…

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

coothead

[John_Betong]

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

Google Search Console

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

[bluedreamer]

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.

[Mittineague]

Maybe using the “Validate entire site” option?

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

[SamA74]

@Mittineague

Maybe using the “Validate entire site” option?

That does it, but doesn’t do html5.

[CaraMooralian]

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

[Mittineague]

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?

[Dez]

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