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Revalidation Link

You can quickly and easily revalidate any of your web pages at any time by adding the following link to the bottom of your pages:

<a href="http://www.totalvalidator.com/validator/Revalidate?revalidate=true">Revalidate this page</a>
Alternatively enhance this with an official logo:
<a href="http://www.totalvalidator.com/validator/Revalidate?revalidate=true">
<img src="http://www.totalvalidator.com/images/valid_n_xhtml_10.gif" alt="Totally Valid XHTML 1.0" />
</a>

When you click on this link it will submit your page for validation and then return the results in the usual way.

By default the validator will check the page for broken links, and validate the HTML using the 'Auto-detect' option. Of course you may wish to use different options for checking the page, as described below.

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Adding options

You can alter or add to the standard revalidation options by extending the link shown above in the following manner:

<a href="http://www.totalvalidator.com/validator/Revalidate?revalidate=true&amp;OptionName=OptionValue">

The actual options available are shown in the next section. But here's an example showing how to add WAI AA validation, and a British spell check:

<a href="http://www.totalvalidator.com/validator/Revalidate?revalidate=true&amp;wai=AA&amp;spellcheck=GB">

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Available options

Please carefully check what you use from the list below, as any misspellings will generally result in the option being silently ignored.

HTML validation option Meaning
dtd=false Don't perform this validation
dtd=Best-fit Use the standard that generates the least problems
dtd=dtds/1.1/xhtml11.dtd XHTML 1.1
dtd=dtds/1.0/xhtml1-strict.dtd XHTML 1.0 Strict
dtd=dtds/1.0/xhtml1-transitional.dtd XHTML 1.0 Transitional
dtd=dtds/1.0/xhtml1-frameset.dtd XHTML 1.0 Frameset
dtd=dtds/ISO/15445.dtd ISO/IEC 15445:2000
dtd=dtds/4.01/strict.dtd HTML 4.01 Strict
dtd=dtds/4.01/loose.dtd HTML 4.01 Transitional
dtd=dtds/4.01/frameset.dtd HTML 4.01 Frameset
dtd=dtds/4.0/strict.dtd HTML 4.0 Strict
dtd=dtds/4.0/loose.dtd HTML 4.0 Transitional
dtd=dtds/4.0/frameset.dtd HTML 4.0 Frameset
dtd=dtds/3.2/HTML32.dtd HTML 3.2
dtd=dtds/2.0/html.dtd HTML 2.0
Accessibility validation option Meaning
wai=508 Section 508
wai=A WCAG v1 (A)
wai=AA WCAG v1 (AA)
wai=AAA WCAG v1 (AAA)
wai=A2 WCAG v2 (A)
wai=AA2 WCAG v2 (AA)
wai=AAA2 WCAG v2 (AAA)
Spell check option Meaning
spellcheck=US American English
spellcheck=GB British English
spellcheck=FR French
spellcheck=ES Spanish
spellcheck=IT Italian
spellcheck=DE German
uppercase=true Spell check words that are in upper case
mixedcase=true Spell check words that are in mixed case
wordswithdigits=true Spell check words that have digits in them
checkattrs=true Spell check displayable text attributes (e.g. "alt" text)
ignoresuggestions=true Do not display a list of suggestions for misspelled words
skiplangcheck=true Do not check that web page language is compatible with the spell check language
Broken links option Meaning
checklinks=false Don't check for broken links
timeout=X X is an integer between 10 and 120 representing how long to wait for a link to respond before reporting it as a broken link, defaults to 20 seconds
reportredirects=true Report details of any 301/302/303 redirects
Miscellaneous option Meaning
hidecontent=true Hide the content of the web page in the output report
showwarnings=true Show warnings as well as errors in the output report

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