The Easiest Way To Check Your Site’s Validity

Posted on Friday, May 11th, 2007

It’s all very well following my tips on keeping a blog or website valid, but checking that you are doing it right can be a pain. The W3C’s HTML Validator is the best way to check, but there must be something easier and quicker.

Validation At A Click

Firstly, if you wanted an easy way to use the W3C validator for each of the pages in your site, all you need to do is put a link in your footer, like mine below, with the ref: http://validator.w3.org/ check?uri=referer. This link will take you to the validator automatically checking the page you are on.

Validation At A Glance

Even quicker and more useful than that link, in my opinion, is the HTML Validator extension for Firefox. HTML Validator is based on Tidy which was originally developed by the W3C and allows you to check the validity of your HTML with a glance to the status bar.

HTML Validator extension at work Install it and all you have to look for is the green tick in the bottom right hand side of your browser to know that your site is fine. If it’s not, you can view the source of the page and the validator will highlight the errors.

This little extension has made my life much easier when trying to keep my pages valid, if you want to stay valid give it a try.

Thanks to blogjunkie for inspiring me to write this post, I hope it helps out.

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    May 11th, 2007 at 9:41 am

  2. 1May 11th, 2007 at 10:09 am

    blogjunkie Says:

    Hi Phil, thanks for writing this up for me. Really appreciate it and will be using this from now on. All the best in the Group Writing Project!


  3. 2June 18th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

    Technology Transfer Opportunities Says:

    The internet today can be a spider net for some of us… If there weren’t people like you to explain us a few things we would probably give up for ever understanding the mysteries of internet.


  4. 3September 7th, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    Brain Says:

    I’m using the Firefox’s validator extension and always encouraging my friends to use it. Every webmaster must use i think…


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