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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 [MD5 Checksum] [License]

OS X 10.4 - 10.7 [MD5 Checksum] [License]

Linux [MD5 Checksum] [License]

Firefox/Seamonkey extension [License]

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 1.5 or later to be installed. A private copy of Java 1.6 for Windows can be found in the Downloads section.

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Introduction

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:

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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Latest News (Atom RSS )

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

August 28th 2011 - Total Validator v7.0.0 released.:

• To help clarify accessibility issues a new category of problem called 'Probable Errors' has been introduced. This covers those problems which may not be an error in some circumstances.
• Recategorisation of some existing Errors as 'Probable Errors'
• Added HTML5 Polyglot validation. This must be chosen manually.
• Added XHTML Mobile Profile 1.2 validation
• Major reorganisation of the tool UI
• New options to add a delay into checking each link and downloading each page to reduce the rate of server requests
• New option to stop the validation after a set number of problems have been found
• New option to stop after a set number of pages with problems
• Major improvements to generated source code option in the Extension
• The extension now passes the browser proxy settings to the Pro tool
• Extension support for latest Firefox/SeaMonkey versions
• Minimum timeout for broken links reduced to 5 seconds
• Reports now use colour coding for the different types of problems
• Stricter entity encoding checks introduced
• List of browser identifications updated. To use the latest ones use the Reset button on the edit dialog
• Stricter tests for unknown or invalid command line options

July 14th 2011 - Total Validator v6.13.1 released. Bugs fixed:

• In HTML5 'http-equiv' now accepts registered directives
• Spelling dictionaries are now all read/written using UTF-8 encoding. This includes user-dictionaries, which may have to be converted from the platform default.

June 30th 2011 - Total Validator v6.13.0 released:

• HTML5 updated to 25th May version
• HTML+RDFa 1.1 updated to 25th May version
• In the extension you can now validate the generated source (after javascript has run) to validate pages that use AJAX
• Warnings are now turned on by default
• Proxy for updates options removed and merged into main proxy settings
• Several HTML5 and parsing corrections
• Changed 'accept' http header to properly reflect what is accepted
• Better detection of Documents and Application Data folders for Windows, especially Windows 7
• Extension support for Firefox 6
• Extension statusbar icon replaced by add-on bar icon
• Several extension performance improvements, minor UI changes and corrections

May 25th 2011 - Total Validator Extension v6.12.1 released:

• Support for Firefox 5
• BUG: The 'Path to tool' was not being saved for some Pro Tool users.

April 28th 2011 - Total Validator v6.12.0 released:

• Added 'paths to include' function for further fine-grained selection of what to validate
• HTML5 updated to 5th April version
• HTML+RDFa 1.1 updated to 5th April version
• Added support for SeaMonkey 2.1 for the extension

February 27th 2011 - Total Validator v6.11.0 released:

• Accessibility updates in line with W3C Alt techniques
• HTML5 updated to 13th January version
• HTML+RDFa 1.1 updated to 13th January version
• XHTML 1.1 SE updated to 23rd November version
• XHTML Basic 1.1 SE updated to 23rd November version
• XHTML-Print SE updated to 23rd November version
• Extend strip session and strip action options to work with action url
• Added extra debug support to both the extension and the tools

January 17th 2011 - Total Validator v6.10.0 released:

• Online validation service terminated
• Screenshot service terminated
• Minor Accessibility validation improvements
• Minor improvements to tools
• Extension enhanced with full Firefox 4.0 support

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