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Table Validator Needed

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by T0PS3O, Jan 20, 2005.

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  1. #1
    Hi,

    I hate working with HTML Tables (yeah yeah, tell me about CSS another time) when it's starting to nest and get dozens of TRs etc.

    I used to use DreamWeaver to just look at the table in design mode and then get rid of excessive or redundant <table> tags or <td>s etc.

    Just downloaded the latest version but it won't work as nice as it used to. Or my code (OsC Contribution) is so bad that even DreamWeaver MX can't make anything of it.

    So...

    Are there any HTML Table Validators out there?

    Obviously tried a Google search but haven't found what I'm looking for.
     
    T0PS3O, Jan 20, 2005 IP
  2. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    #2
    Printed out 21 pages of PHP/HTML and sat doen with 4 different colours of marker pens and finally found the redundant </td> which should have been a </table>.

    Case closed... For now...

    Would still be interested to hear how you guys/girls go about this and whther there exists something like a validator.
     
    T0PS3O, Jan 20, 2005 IP
  3. chachi

    chachi The other Jason

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    #3
    that sounds like it was a good time :)
     
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    mushroom Peon

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  5. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    #5
    Does that show bits that are wrong though?

    I know I should be ashamed but I never ever done a w3 html validation...

    I liked the way DreamWeaver used to nicely show me the lay-out and hilighted in yellow to obsolete tags. Still does to some extent with MX but nut quite the way I liked it.
     
    T0PS3O, Jan 21, 2005 IP
  6. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    Yes... You SHOULD be ashamed...

    Poor Show man... :( ;)
     
    SEbasic, Jan 21, 2005 IP
  7. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    I know... But I'm more of a PHP man than html so never really bothered. If it works in a couple of browsers, I put it live. Also, just after I got the grips of HTML, everything became xhtml. At least PHP stays the same :)

    I also mostly work with 3d party systems like OsCommerce now, so bound to other people's HTML skills or lack of.

    But yeah, should start doing it instead of making excuses.
     
    T0PS3O, Jan 21, 2005 IP
  8. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    Yup Yup...

    It makes producing a working cross browser site soooooooo much easier.

    If I didn't have the validator built it to FF, I would spend a lot more time developing sites.
     
    SEbasic, Jan 21, 2005 IP
  9. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    Last week I installed FFs web developer toolbar. Pretty handy I have to say! I noticed a validator link so might give it a try.

    Want to place bets on number of mistakes? :)
     
    T0PS3O, Jan 21, 2005 IP
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    SEbasic Peon

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    At a first guess (Without seeing the code), I'll say 80 validation errors (You're going for XHTML right?)
     
    SEbasic, Jan 21, 2005 IP
  11. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    One of my homepages I count 40 errors only...

    ... But then: The maximum number of errors was reached. Further errors in the document have not been reported.

    W3: Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 604 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.

    Thanks SE! Now I'll be in the office again all weekend!
     
    T0PS3O, Jan 21, 2005 IP
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    SEbasic Peon

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    Ah Geee, I'm sorry man!

    Oh well, the web will be a better place as a result of your work ;)

    On a side note, It's very rewarding when you finally get it to validate... Honest. :D
     
    SEbasic, Jan 21, 2005 IP
  13. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    117 W3 errors when I override the character encoding.

    There's no way I'll get it to validate because it's a 3d party back-end system. I won't even be able to set the doc type definitions...

    I'll try and get Os validated later.

    Thanks for making me a bit better webgeek.
     
    T0PS3O, Jan 21, 2005 IP