HTMLValidator : Java Glossary
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get htmlvalidator HTMLValidator
CSE HTMLValidator Pro is the HTML validator I use to check my *.html web pages for syntax errors. It also checks *.css style sheets. It is produced by A I Internet Solutions aka htmlvalidator.com. Albert Wiersh of A.I. has been extremely helpful over the years whenever I had a problem or suggestions for new features.
Why Validate? & and &
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Why Validate?

Why bother with validation if you are not obsessive-compulsive? Because when you clear up all the picky syntax errors, your website will work with any browser trouble free. Otherwise it will work only with the browser or browsers you explicitly tested it with. Further it could stop working with the next release of a browser. Browsers are buggy enough without loading them down with malformed HTML.

HTMLValidator is extremely configurable. You can get it to ignore picky errors for now, then when you have the big problems with your site cleaned up, turn them back on. You can also make it super picky, so that your HTML is easier to process with programs, or to gradually migrate your site to XHTML.

Learning What CSE HTML Validator Can Do

There are five ways you can learn what it does, listed here in increasing order of commitment.
HTML Validator Options
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$0.00 USD Validate On-line Try validating some of your web pages on-line. This is done with free lite version. You don’t have to download anything, but the web page you validate must be posted on web.
$0.00 USD Download Lite Download the free lite version, and use it for as long as you like. It won’t expire. You normally use it to validate HTML on your hard disk before you upload your pages to your website. though you can also use it to validate web pages pages, (even other people’s) already posted on the web.
$0.00 USD Read the FAQ. Read the HTMLValidator FAQ. You will discover the extreme configurability. You can control the degree of pickiness so you don’t have to fix everything at once, just set the filters fine enough to get the worst problems cleaned before you move on to the pickier stuff.
$0.00 USD Download Standard Trial Download the trial standard version. It will work for 30 days to let you evaluate. You might choose this first over the pro edition just you would not be overwhelmed with features to start.
$0.00 USD Download Pro Trial Download the trial pro version. It will work for 30 days to let you evaluate. It is fully functional. The worst that can happen is you have 30 days to clean up your website. When the trial expires, your website will still be clean.
$69.00 USD Buy Standard Buy the standard version. It would be suitable if you had under 1000 files to keep validated. It does not have any hard limits.
$129.00 USD Buy Pro Buy the pro version. I use the pro version because comes with the batch wizard. It would take forever to validate my whole website file by file.
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HTMLValidator comes in three versions. See this comparison chart to help you decide which version you need.

Configuring

You have very fine control over what the validator is picky about. You can configure it to ignore certain classes of error or certain blocks of HTML with <cseignore>… </cseignore> tags. I very much like this feature. It lets me bring my HTML gradually into conformance. I ask it not to bug me about picky stuff like missing </p> and I used early on to ask it not to pester me about using <ul>… </ul> for indenting. Now I do ask it to be picky.

Here’s how I configured it to demand balancing </li> tags.

  1. Click Options ⇒ Configuration Editor ⇒ Edit ⇒ Tag Names.
  2. On the top right, Select li (020) with the drop down box on the right (not the box on the left) as the “Tag Name Being Configured”
  3. On the right, select the “Required end tag” radio button.
  4. You’ll probably want to repeat this for all li tags whose context is distinguished with a number.
  5. Save the configuration file to a different filename to make sure it doesn’t get overwritten if the CSE HTML Validator is reinstalled or updated.
The most important parameter to configure in the batch processor is Tools ⇒ Batch Wizard ⇒ Options ⇒ Batch Wizard Options ⇒ General ⇒ Miscellaneous ⇒ max targets which controls the maximum number of files that will be processed in a batch.

Other files in:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.userid\Application Data\AI Internet Solutions\CSE HTML Validator\8.0\
or in Vista:
C:\Users\roedy\AppData\Roaming\AI Internet Solutions\CSE HTML Validator\8.0\, you can configure include:

Make sure you periodically clean out:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.userid\Application Data\AI Internet Solutions\CSE HTML Validator\8.0\batchreport*.html
or in Vista:
C:\Users\roedy\AppData\Roaming\AI Internet Solutions\CSE HTML Validator\8.0\batchreport*.html

& and &amp;

By default, one thing the validator will complain about is &s in your CGI URLs; it wants you to spell them out as &amp. The CGI server will still see them as plain & since your browser converts them back to plain &. I wrote a utility to do correct this error for you automatically called Amper.

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Click to visit the HTML Validator website.
Check your document online with CSE HTML Validator Lite.
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