Valid Html
The other day at work I was doing a bit of web programming and ran into a little snag. I had written a good sized piece of code and after testing noticed that the formatting wasn’t just right. I figured out quickly that I had a bad tag in there somewhere, but how to find it without going insane looking through table tags? Well, at first I reached for kate, which is really a nice editor. The problem is, even with it’s really nice syntax highlighting, and bracket matching (really nice), that it wasn’t going to help me find my broken tag. I remembered a little command line program I used to use for html validation and did a quick seach for that. The problem was that I had forgotten what the name was (tidy) and was just searching on html validator. What I came up with right away was a firefox extension called HTML Validator, so I downloaded it to give it a try. To my delight, it works and very well at that. It quickly helped me find my bad bracket and also a misplaced backtick as well (fat fingered). So, if you are in the need of a nice util to help you generate better html, you really can’t do better than to give this one a try. Enjoy!