Validating a website

Slime101 · 3 Feb 2006 at 17:32

I'm trying to get a new site to validate, this is a bit of a problem because the output doesnt specidfy which file the "errors" are from.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline

Is there a way of showing what files these lines are from as they are all included and called files.

Conrad11 · 3 Feb 2006 at 18:08

Hi there,

Well, if all your website is using the same sort of template then it would be the same errors in all of them.

It's always best to start with the index page and see if the errors are coming from there which they are (index.php):

Click Here For Validation Results

Thanks...

Slime101 · 3 Feb 2006 at 18:50

Thing is index php contains no "html" - it is purely php where it calls other files, hence my query about identifying where these errors lie and in which file that was called.

Beansprout · 3 Feb 2006 at 19:13

Since the first two are errors right at the top of the page I'd follow through the PHP and see which page gets called first, and then find the footer page to add in a </html> tag

Conrad11 · 3 Feb 2006 at 21:31

Beansprout said:
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What he said, just go through the included pages finding where you see similar code, for instance as beansproat said, two of the errors are in the page document type declaration so that would be in the top included page I guess or the first page with HTML in it.

The last error would be in the last page that has HTML in it as it is the closing HTML tag.

Thanks...

uchuff · 4 Feb 2006 at 20:13

You could include html comments at the start/end of your template pages - then when the validator says say "error line XX" just open view your generated HTML source, go to line XX and look at the comments to see which template its in.