CSS and HTML check

Is there a tool (free hopefully) to validate CSS and HTML of a wordpress theme? I am looking at buy a new theme for my blog and I do not want to buy something that might affect my ratings.
Thank you.

 

Is there a demo-page set up? Or have you just seen screenshots of the design?

If there is a demo page set up, you can submit those URLs to the CSS and HTML validators to see if they validate properly.

Here's the W3C CSS Validator.

Here's the W3C HTML Validator.

If you don't have a working demo (and therefore no access to the html/css source), you won't be able to find out for sure if the template is 100% valid. You could ask the seller to test the pages and take screenshots of the results for you - but you can't be 100% sure that they weren't doctored up.

Good luck,
- Walkere

 

Thanks a lot for the links, Walkere, I will be checking the finished pages.

 

or you can search in google with keyword

" html validator " or " css validator "

you will see other service site to validate too.

 

I offer validating services. If you have lots of errors just tell me.

 

It's likely not to totally pass validation anyway, because of the widget thingies-- so you need to know what the errors mean. When widgets aren't valid, there is'n't a whole lot you can do about it and it's an error you can just live with.

 

Thank you

 

There's plenty you can do about it - if you have a bit of php knowledge. Wordpress Widgets, like all php scripts, have easily accessible source code. Go to wp-content/plugins/plugin-name-here, look for the offending error, and fix it.

I installed a widget with one of the most annoying, stupidest errors ever. The author had included his name in an HTML comment (no big deal). However, the name had an accent ague over an e.

I kept staring at the validator thinking, "Where'd this accent come from? I didn't put it there!"

I finally looked in the plug-in source, found the comment, changed it to a regular 'e', and everything was fine.

- Walkere