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        <div id="jumpbar">
        Validate:
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#validate-by-uri" title="validate an online document by entering their URL">by URL</a></li>
          <li><a href="#validate-by-upload" title="validate a local document by uploading it to the validator">by File Upload</a></li>
          <li><a href="#validate-by-input" title="validate a local document by pasting its source in a text field">by direct Input</a></li>
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    <div class="intro">
      <p><a name="skip" id="skip"></a>
        The W3C Markup Validation Service is a free service that checks Web
        documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations
        and other standards.
      </p>
    </div>

    <div>
      <h2>Validate Your Markup</h2>
      
      <fieldset class="front" id="validate-by-uri"><legend>Validate by URL</legend>
      <form method="get" action="check">
        <p>
          <label title="Address of page to Validate" for="uri">Address:
            <input id="uri" name="uri" size="40" /></label>
          <label title="Submit URL for validation"><input type="submit" value="Check" /></label>
        </p>
      </form>
      <p>
        Enter the <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> of the page
        you want to check. Advanced options are available from the <a
          title="Extended Interface to the W3C Markup Validation Service"
          href="detailed.html">Extended Interface</a>.
      </p>
      </fieldset>
	<br />
      <fieldset class="front" id="validate-by-upload"><legend>Validate by File Upload</legend>
      <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="check">
        <p>
          <label title="Choose a Local File to Upload and Validate" for="uploaded_file">Local File:
            <input type="file" id="uploaded_file" name="uploaded_file" size="30" /></label>
          <label title="Submit file for validation"><input type="submit" value="Check" /></label>
        </p>
      </form>
      <p>
        Select the file you want to upload and check. Advanced options are
        available from the <a
          title="File Upload Interface to the W3C Markup Validation Service"
          href="file-upload.html">Extended File Upload Interface</a>.
      </p>
      <p><strong>Note</strong>: file upload may not work with Internet 
      Explorer on some versions of Windows XP Service Pack 2, see our
      <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2005/01/Validator-IE_WinXP_SP2">information page</a> 
      on the W3C QA Website.</p>
      </fieldset>
    <br />
    <fieldset class="front" id="validate-by-input"><legend>Validate by Direct Input</legend>
    <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="check">
    <p>Input the markup you would like to validate in the text area below:</p>
    <p>
      <label title="Paste a complete (HTML) Document here" for="fragment">
      <textarea cols="75" rows="12" name="fragment" id="fragment"></textarea></label><br />
      <label title="Submit markup for validation"><input type="submit" value="Check" /></label>
    </p>
    </form>
    <p>Only complete documents (along with a 
    <a href="docs/help.html#faq-doctype">Doctype declaration</a>) will be validated.
    Advanced options are available from the 
    <a href="fragment-upload.html">Extended Direct Input Interface</a>.</p>
    </fieldset>

    </div>

    <div id="recent">
      <h2>Recent Updates</h2>
      <dl id="news">
        <dt><a href="whatsnew.html#t2004-07-23">2004-07-23</a>:
          Markup Validator v0.6.7 Released</dt>
        <dd>
          Released version 0.6.7, a maintenance release that fixes a few minor
          bugs, improves authentication proxying, and makes some slight
          tweaks to the website style and markup.
        </dd>
        <dt><a href="whatsnew.html#t2004-05-21">2004-05-21</a>:
          Markup Validator v0.6.6 Released</dt>
        <dd>
          Released version 0.6.6, a maintenance release that fixes a few minor
          bugs, resurrects the whitespace-preserving source display, adds
          explanations for additional error messages, and makes some slight
          tweaks to the website style.
        </dd>
        <dt><a href="whatsnew.html#t2004-05-07">2004-05-07</a>:
          Markup Validator v0.6.5 Released</dt>
        <dd>
          Released version 0.6.5, a maintenance release easier to use and
          install, featuring new documentation, simpler navigation, new recovery
          mechanisms instead of fatal errors, and offering explanations in
          addition to error messages.
        </dd>
      </dl>
      <p class="intro">
        These are the most recent major changes to this service. See
        "<a href="whatsnew.html">What's&nbsp;New</a>" for more details.
      </p>
   </div>


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