We’ll look in detail at how a standards compliant HTML page combined with CSS can provide well styled documents. Since it’s one of the best organized documents I know of, I’m going to use this page as an example.
We’ll also look at how you can validate your documents. To the right are a couple of Javascript tools you might find useful. These called bookmarklets and you can drag them into your bookmarks toolbar to use them.
The “Validate HTML” bookmarklet works in any browser and will validate whatever page you happen to be on at the time. This function uses W3C’s validation tool, which is also available under the meta section of your web pages’ sidebar or from the Tools menu in Firefox if you have the Web Developer extension installed.
The “View Source” bookmarklet only works in Firefox and will allow you to view the source of any page you happen to be on. This is equivalent of choosing View Page Source in Firefox or View Source in Safari from the View menu. All browsers have equivalent functionality somewhere, usually under a View menu.