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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>

<head>
  <title>W3C HTML Validation Service</title>
  <link rev="made" href="mailto:gerald@w3.org">
  <meta name="keywords" content="HTML, Hypertext Markup Language, Validation,
    W3C HTML Validation Service">
  <meta name="description" content="W3C's easy-to-use
    HTML validation service, based on an SGML parser.">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000ee" vlink="#551a8b">

  <p>
    <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img
       src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/WWW/w3c_home" height=48 border=0
       alt="W3C"></a>
  </p>

  <h1>W3C HTML Validation Service</h1>

  <p>
    Welcome to the W3C HTML Validation Service!
    See <a href="whatsnew.html"><strong>what's new</strong></a>. (updated
    August 26, 1998)
  </p>

  <p>
    This is an easy-to-use HTML validation service based on an SGML
    parser. It checks HTML documents for compliance with W3C HTML
    Recommendations and other HTML standards.
  </p>

  <p>
    To use the <a
    href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/">W3C HTML 4.0 Recommendation</a>,
    start your document with one of the following doctype declarations:
  </p>

  <pre>
    &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"
            "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"&gt;
    &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
            "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"&gt;
    &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Frameset//EN"
            "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/frameset.dtd"&gt;
  </pre>

  <hr>
  <h2><a name="byURI">Validate Documents by URI</a></h2>

  <p>
    Enter the location of a document you would like validated:
  </p>

  <form method=GET action="/check">
    Location: <input name="uri" size=50><br>
    <input name="weblint" type=checkbox value="">Include <a
    href="http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/~neilb/weblint/">Weblint</a>
    results
    <input name="pw" type=checkbox value="">run Weblint
    in "pedantic" mode<br>
    <input name="ss" type=checkbox value="">Show source input
    <input name="outline" type=checkbox value="">Show an outline of this
    document<br>
    <input name="sp" type=checkbox value="">Show parse tree
    <input name="noatt" type=checkbox value="">don't show
    attributes in the parse tree<br>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit this URI for validation">
    <input type="reset" value="Reset this form">
  </form>

  <hr>
  <h2><a name="seeAlso">See Also</a></h2>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="whatsnew.html">Recent changes to this service</a></li>
    <li><a href="news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html">The HTML
      authoring newsgroup</a> (for help with HTML)
    <li><a href="feedback.html">How to provide feedback on this service</a></li>
    <li><a href="sgml-lib/catalog">DTDs (document types) supported by this
      service</a> (the SGML catalog)</li>
    <li><a href="todo.html">The to-do list for the service</a></li>
    <li><a href="/source/">Information on the source code availability</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/">The
      www-validator mailing list archives</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/">The W3C HTML 4.0
      Recommendation</a>
    <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32">The W3C HTML 3.2
      Recommendation</a>

  </ul>

  <h2><a name="credits">Credits</a></h2>

  <p>
    This service uses:
  </p>

  <ul>

    <li>
      <a href="about.html">Hardware/network connectivity</a> provided by <a
      href="http://www.compaq.com/">Compaq Computer Corporation</a>.
    </li>

    <li>
      <a href="http://www.jclark.com/">James Clark</a>'s excellent <a
      href="http://www.jclark.com/sp/">SGML parser</a>,
    </li>

    <li>
      <a href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/">Roy T. Fielding</a>'s <a
      href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/libwww-perl/">libwww-perl</a>
      to retrieve documents,
    </li>

    <li>
      <a href="http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/~neilb/">Neil Bowers</a>' HTML
      style checker, <a
      href="http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/~neilb/weblint/">Weblint</a>.
    </li>

    <li>
      SGML <a href="http://www.cs.duke.edu/~dsb/kgv-faq/errors.html">error
      explanations</a> maintained by <a
      href="http://www.cs.duke.edu/~dsb/index.html">Scott Bigham</a>.

  </ul>


<hr>

<address>
  <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img
     src="http://validator.w3.org/images/vh40.gif" height=31 width=88
     align=right border=0 alt="Valid HTML 4.0!"></a>
  <a href="/feedback.html">Gerald Oskoboiny</A><br>
     $Date: 1998-12-16 11:44:47 $
</address>

</body>

</html>