Mass HTML Documents Validator?

[wpearsall]

Hi there, does anyone know of a site where there is a mass document validator?, that will spider every link on the page, and create a report for each page?

If not a site, a decent FREE windows program that will do it?

Ta

[techgnome]

Do a Google search for Garage Monkey Website.

[Rick Bull]

Also http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/batch.html has a validator where you can seperate files by new lines. It's not as good as the W3C one, but it's generally not bad.

[wpearsall]

Yep, found it, but only problem wiv it, its limited to 150 pages / time (which i understand, cuz it took like 5 - 10 mins to do the limit on my site with it )

But i got rid of a lot of errors (Pretty basic stuff, like <tr><td>visible form stuff</td></tr>
<hidden form stuff>
</table>

: Helped speed up the time my page's show too (only by a second or two, but it all helps huh )

Cant figure out why the CSS validator for W3.org isnt working tho,

Ne 1 no ne good css validators?

[Rick Bull]

The W3C's one often goes down, just check back there tomorrow. But the HTML site I gave you up there has a CSS validator somewhere on their site. That one has quite a few bugs with advanced stuff like selectors, etc. Still not bad though.

[wpearsall]

OK, checking my CSS, i have quite a few warnings on it (tsk tsk for me i guess).

http://adz.ods.org:88/themes/subGreen/style/style.css < Style Sheet.

how do i add, "Background-Image" to the "Background" tag?
I have this code for my body:

body {
		color: #000000;
		background: #EEFFEE;
		background-image: NONE;
		scrollbar-face-color: #EEFFEE;
		scrollbar-highlight-color: #000000;
		scrollbar-shadow-color: #EEFFEE;
		scrollbar-3dlight-color: #E0E7F1;
		scrollbar-arrow-color:  #587EA5;
		scrollbar-track-color: #EEFFEE;
		scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #015E8C;
}

and it returns these errors:

background-image: NONE
Warning: The shorthand background property is more widely supported than background-image.

scrollbar-face-color: #EEFFEE
Error: Property scrollbar-face-color not recognized.

scrollbar-highlight-color: #000000
Error: Property scrollbar-highlight-color not recognized.

scrollbar-shadow-color: #EEFFEE
Error: Property scrollbar-shadow-color not recognized.

scrollbar-3dlight-color: #E0E7F1
Error: Property scrollbar-3dlight-color not recognized.

scrollbar-arrow-color:  #587EA5
Error: Property scrollbar-arrow-color not recognized.

scrollbar-track-color: #EEFFEE
Error: Property scrollbar-track-color not recognized.

scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #015E8C
Error: Property scrollbar-darkshadow-color not recognized.

anyone know of a more "versitile" scrollbar coloring style?

[Rick Bull]

Well for the background thing, if you don't want an image just remove the background-image bit:

background: #EEFFEE;

As for the Scrollbar thing, that's a proprietary MS IE extension (which I think one of the linux browsers also supports). You have to just remove it if you want it to validate, or alternatively add it to your documents via JavaScript. I should be able to figure the JavaScript out for you if you want it.

[wpearsall]

Nah, i will knock up a bit of PHP Code to add the "<link rel=.." stuff for IE only things in

Form styles r supporting in things other then IE correct?

[Rick Bull]

CSS for form elements? Yeah they're supported in Mozilla and Opera 7. Mozilla has some very good support for background's of elements, like you can put animated GIFs as backgrounds for textboxes

[wpearsall]

OK, now, according to the mass html validator (and a lot of work i did going thru every php script i have done for me site, turning it into "Valid HTML Output"

I am almost entirely done for the validness of the html on the whole site... except:

<textarea WRAP="OFF" name=....

Error: there is no attribute WRAP for this element (in this HTML version)

So, im guessing (hopefully) there is some Style="??: ??;" method of turning WRAP > Off? (I have got a bit of PHP Script in a text area for people to add to their sites, & if it does wrap, it will cause errors etc So i need it off )

know of the style= method? (if there is one) or a more "valid" method?

TNX

[Rick Bull]

<textarea style="white-space: nowrap;"></textarea>

And if that doesn't work you may also need to add overflow: scroll; in there too, you shouldn't need to though.