CTEC1731/2010F Lab #3
Checklist for Proper HTML
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[ ] DTD at the top of the document
[ ] tag
[ ]
tag
[ ]
[ ] CSS in head or in separate file referenced by tag
[ ] tag
[ ] tag
[ ] src= attribute in tag should spell image name with *exactly*
the same spelling (including the same case) as the image file name
(so your page will work with a UNIX-based web server)
[ ] title= and alt= attributes for tags for accessibility
[ ] width= and height= attributes for tags for faster loading
[ ]
instead of
[ ]
tag should have summary= attribute for accessibility
[ ] tag
[ ] tag
[ ] generous use of spacing for readability
[ ] Run HTML Tidy on your page to clean up your code!
(Make a backup first: cp yourfile.html yourfile.html.orig)
tidy -asxhtml -indent -modify -clean -file yourfile.errs yourfile.html
*OR*
tidy -asxhtml -i -m -c -f yourfile.errs yourfile.html
*OR*
tidy -f yourfile.errs -imc yourfile.html
[ ] Check your page with the World Wide Web Consortium Markup
Validator service:
http://validator.w3.org/
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Tidy command-line options
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tidy [option...] [file...] [option...] [file...]
Utility to clean up and pretty print HTML/XHTML/XML
see http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
Options for HTML Tidy for Solaris released on 1 September 2005:
File manipulation
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-output , -o write output to the specified
-config set configuration options from the specified
-file , -f write errors to the specified
-modify, -m modify the original input files
Processing directives
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-indent, -i indent element content
-wrap , -w wrap text at the specified . 0 is assumed if
is missing. When this option is omitted, the
default of the configuration option "wrap" applies.
-upper, -u force tags to upper case
-clean, -c replace FONT, NOBR and CENTER tags by CSS
-bare, -b strip out smart quotes and em dashes, etc.
-numeric, -n output numeric rather than named entities
-errors, -e only show errors
-quiet, -q suppress nonessential output
-omit omit optional end tags
-xml specify the input is well formed XML
-asxml, -asxhtml convert HTML to well formed XHTML
-ashtml force XHTML to well formed HTML
-access do additional accessibility checks ( = 0, 1, 2, 3).
0 is assumed if is missing.
Character encodings
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-raw output values above 127 without conversion to entities
-ascii use ISO-8859-1 for input, US-ASCII for output
-latin0 use ISO-8859-15 for input, US-ASCII for output
-latin1 use ISO-8859-1 for both input and output
-iso2022 use ISO-2022 for both input and output
-utf8 use UTF-8 for both input and output
-mac use MacRoman for input, US-ASCII for output
-win1252 use Windows-1252 for input, US-ASCII for output
-ibm858 use IBM-858 (CP850+Euro) for input, US-ASCII for output
-utf16le use UTF-16LE for both input and output
-utf16be use UTF-16BE for both input and output
-utf16 use UTF-16 for both input and output
-big5 use Big5 for both input and output
-shiftjis use Shift_JIS for both input and output
-language set the two-letter language code (for future use)
Miscellaneous
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-version, -v show the version of Tidy
-help, -h, -? list the command line options
-xml-help list the command line options in XML format
-help-config list all configuration options
-xml-config list all configuration options in XML format
-show-config list the current configuration settings
Use --blah blarg for any configuration option "blah" with argument "blarg"
Input/Output default to stdin/stdout respectively
Single letter options apart from -f may be combined
as in: tidy -f errs.txt -imu foo.html
For further info on HTML see http://www.w3.org/MarkUp