Validation Tool
Total Validator is an (X)HTML validator, an accessibility validator, a spell checker, and a broken links checker all rolled into one tool allowing one-click validation of your web pages. Download this free tool and validate your web pages today:
Windows 2000 - Windows 7
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OS X 10.4 - 10.7
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Linux
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Firefox/Seamonkey extension
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For many more great features, including validating an entire site in one go and CSS validation, choose the Pro tool.
Requirements: The tools are Java based and so require Java 5.0 or later to be installed. A private copy of Java 6.0 for Windows can be found in the Downloads section.
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Since its release Total Validator has become extremely popular with Web developers around the world. Each year millions of validations are performed using the desktop tools, of which over a quarter of a million copies have been downloaded. Yet we only receive a few emails each year from users with real problems showing just how reliable and accurate the system is.
Some of the top sites in the world are now validated using the Pro tool, so why not join them today?
Total Validator provides the following basic features:
- A parser that validates the basic construction of your pages
- The best HTML validation against the W3C Markup Standards
- Accessibility validation against the WCAG (1.0 and 2.0) and US Section 508 standard
- CSS validation against the W3C CSS Standards
- Checks each page for broken links
- Spell checks the content of your pages: English (American and British), French, Italian, Spanish, and German
- One click validation using the Browser extension
Read more about Total Validator in the tools section. or click the links to the left if you just want to know why Total Validator is better.
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May 6th 2012 - Total Validator v7.4.0 released.:
- HTML5 updated to 29th March 2012
- Improved Aria support in HTML5
- Added support for XHTML+ARIA, HTML+ARIA and HTML4+RDFa Lite validations
- XHTML+RDFa 1.1 updated to 13th March 2012
- HTML+RDFa 1.1 updated to 29th March 2012
- Added support for CSS Fragmentation Module Level 3
- Added support for CSS Transforms, replacing CSS 2D and 3D Transforms
- CSS Values and Units Module Level 3 updated to 8th March 2012
- CSS Speech Module updated to 20th March 2012
- CSS Flexible Box Layout Module updated to 22nd March 2012
- CSS Grid Layout updated to 22nd March 2012
- CSS Animations updated to 3rd April 2012
- CSS Transitions updated to 3rd April 2012
- CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module updated to 17th April 2012
- CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module updated to 17th April 2012
- Timestamp on summary page is now in local time zone
- Tool automatically deals with OS X quarantine system
- Smaller, better .dmg creation and downloads for OS X
- Moved temp folder for OS X to more accessible location
- Now deals with BOMs on user dictionaries
- Added BOM to all dictionary files to reinforce use of UTF-8
- BUG: Problem count was sometimes incorrect with auto-detect with HTML5
- BUG: Partial fix for Firefox bug when results on remote Windows drive
March 4th 2012 - Pro Tool v7.3.0 and Extension v7.2.1 released.:
- Added support for finer control over what to validate and what to ignore
- Performance improvements across all validations, especially for large sites
- Spell check now reports the total number of words checked
- New 'updates and renewals' reminder
- CSS problems have all been renumbered to help support future expansion
- Fixed a few minor HTML, Accessibility, and CSS bugs
- Fixed bug in extension when validating page source on OS X systems
- Fixed bug in extension when adding to add-on bar on first run
- CSS Backgrounds and Borders Level 3 updated to 14th February version
- Support for the new CSS Positioned Layout Module Level 3 added
- XHTML+RDFa 1.1 updated to 31st January version
- CSS Text Level 3 updated to 19th January version
- CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 3 updated to 17th January version
- CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3 updated to 12th January version
January 8th 2012 - Pro Tool and Extension v7.2.0 released.:
- Added support for CSS Level 3 Validation for Pro Tool users. Includes support for almost everything in all of the current (30+) CSS3 module specifications.
- Support for vendor prefixed CSS properties
- Fixed a number of minor CSS and HTML bugs
- Increased performance when not checking for broken links
November 2nd 2011 - Total Validator v7.1.0 released.:
- CSS Validator for Pro Tool allowing you to validate the contents of <style> tags, 'style' attributes and style sheets to levels 1 and 2.1
- Broken links validation extended to cover links embedded in CSS if you select a CSS Validation
- Performance and other broken link validation improvements and fixes
- Added warning for any unsupported protocols when checking links
- Count of problem pages added to progress dialog and results
- Added checks to ensure that the browser extension and tool are compatible versions
For changes back to 2009 see the log
