Weblint - An HTML document checker
This gateway will run your HTML documents through a program called "weblint".
Weblint will scan through your document and report any problems that it finds
with your HTML formatting.
Please enter the URLs of the documents that you would like scanned (one per
line), and press the submit button. At the bottom of this page is a list of
what problems are currently checked.
Weblint uses the HTML 2.0 specification to judge problems. Since some Netscape
tags are additions to the HTML 2.0 specification, Weblint will flag them as
problems (use of the <center> and <blink> tags for example).Weblint
current checks for the following problems:
- basic structure
- unknown elements and element attributes.
- context checks (where a tag must appear within a certain element).
- overlapped elements.
- expects to see a TITLE in the HEAD element.
- do IMG elements have ALT text?
- illegally nested elements.
- mis-matched tags (e.g., <H1> ... </H2>)
- unclosed elements (e.g., <H1> ... )
- catches elements which should only appear once
- flags obsolete elements.
- odd number of quotes in tag.
- order of headings.
- potentially unclosed tags.
- flags markup embedded in comments --- this can confuse some browsers.
- whines if you use `here' or 'this' as anchor text :-)
- tags where attributes are expected (e.g. anchors).
- existence of local anchor targets.
Weblint was written by Neil
Bowers (neilb@khoros.unm.edu)