CSE HTML Validator

I was asked this morning to check out a website to see if I would be interested in giving it a makeover. I wanted to see just how bad the HTML was by sampling pages and feeding them through HTML Validator.

The problem was it is used frames heavily, so I could not simply copy/paste the URLs into HTML Validator.

It would be nice if I could navigate through the site in HTML Validator clicking a link in the source to find the next page to validate.

PS. your forum spell check does not think "Validator" is a word.

Depending on site size, one method that can be very time efficient (with the current design) is this:

1) Harvest all links (you can often get them from navigation panes).

2) Convert those to a batch file. (You can take a valid and properly configured batch file as a model.)

3) Run the batch processor.

4) Look at the autogenerated reports.

Works for me.

Another approach is to grab a copy of the site and process that. (Some harvesters mess with markup and program driven sites are harder to do!)

You can also look at the links in the Links tab and right-click on a link and choose the "Open Link in Browser" option. I think that will make it easier to open and check the individual files of a framed site.