Chapter 86. Validating Your Source Code

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is so ape over on-spec coding that they offer to validate Web pages for free. If you want to see how well your site conforms to current standards and recommendations, this service might be of interest to you. Not only does the W3C's validator point out every last coding mistake or faux pas on a Web page, it gives you a lengthy report as to why, and it offers ways to correct the problems.

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If you feel bad about receiving poor marks, just send the W3C's validator to the home page of a popular site such as Amazon or eBay.

To validate a Web page, go to http://validator.w3.org/. Enter the URL of the Web page that you want to validate, or attach an offline document and ...

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