Newb Q, need help with HTML Validation

Just to give you a little background. I am a newbie to all this & am really eager to get a good site up & running not quickly as I am in the process of baby steps, meaning, I am just only starting to learn html, php etc & wanted to ask about html validation. Does anyone know of a program that validates your html & edits for you aswell? For example takes out breaks where you don't need them or fixing broken links?

Any help would be greatly appreciated?

Cheers!

 

use dreamweaver it allow you to add validations and allow you to easily add and edit content to your html pages.

Thanks

 

yeah, I am using coffecup (budget version of dw), I feel I need to know more about html. Thanks for your help though

 

no problem, if you need further help let me know. BTW which type of site you are developing?

 

Do I have to reveal that?

No I can't reveal that atm but I will soon.

 

Yes in dreamweaver you can check validation. Go to file>check page>validate markup. It will give you results.

Before that, make sure you design the page as xhtml. If not just change it by going to file>convert>xhtml

 

You can use HTML Tidy. It's currently on SourceForge.net as an open source project.

 

thanks for that, I really appreciate it.