Validate HTML on local machine

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dvanaria picture dvanaria · Aug 27, 2010 · Viewed 45.2k times · Source

I'm currently trying to learn HTML and Java EE Servlet programming. I have an application server running on my local machine (Orion Application Server) and I'm connecting to web pages I've deployed on this server using a browser running on the same machine, directed to http://localhost/mypage.htm (for example).

I know W3C has a site you can go to that will validate an HTML page (and count how many errors are found for a given doctype), but that has to be a publicly available URL. How do you validate HTML on a locally running setup like I've described above?

Answer

Moin Zaman picture Moin Zaman · Aug 27, 2010

many options:

see installation of w3c validation service:

http://validator.w3.org/docs/install.html

Firefox addons:

Firefox addon or other tool to locally validate HTML pages

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249/

Offline validator:

http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/offline/index.html.en

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