This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets, MobileOK content, or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools available.
It compares your HTML document to the defined syntax of HTML and reports any discrepancies. Learn more about the Markup Validator and the languages it can validate.
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Supported document types include the HTML (through HTML 4.01) and XHTML (1.0 and 1.1) family, MathML, SMIL and SVG (1.0 and 1.1, including the mobile profiles). The Markup Validator can also validate Web documents written with an SGML or XML DTD, provided they use a proper document type declaration.
Below is a listing of W3C's various validation services, links to the services themselves, the user-agent header being sent and how to find out more information on each.
This list conveniently gathers all the error messages currently used by the validator when processing Web documents, and the community-contributed explanations to these error messages, whenever available.
Validation is one of the simplest ways to check whether a page is built in accordance with Web standards, and provides one of the most reliable guarantee that future Web platforms will handle it as designed.
For programmatic checking of modern HTML documents, use the API provided by the W3C HTML Checker. To do that, call https://validator.w3.org/nu/ or the URL for another instance of the W3C HTML Checker, and consult the following documentation:
Changes include: More explanations for most of the validation error messages. New documentation on installing the Markup Validator locally. The "fussy" parsing mode is no longer available and will be drastically improved before it comes back - if ever.
