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title: "Validating HTML/HTML 5"
description: "Validating html document meant checking the preferred document syntax and standard, what is follows."
author: "Sumit Kesarwani"
published: 2013-08-22
updated: 2019-09-07
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1373/validating-html-html-5
category: "web development"
tags: ["web development"]
reading_time: 2 minutes
---
# Validating HTML/HTML 5
##### Introduction
Validating html [document](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/328642/what-to-consider-while-choosing-a-software-documentation-tool) meant checking the preferred document syntax and [standard](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23223/naming-convention-or-coding-standard), what is follows. There is [html5](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1535/offline-add-edit-delete-data-in-html5-indexeddb) online [validation](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/43/validation-controls-in-asp-dot-net) is available which take html/html5 document and verify whether this document follow the standards of html5 or not. And generate errors and suggestion to reform the html document.
##### The sources available are:
1. http://validator.w3.org/
2. http://validator.whatwg.org/
To [validate](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1490/what-is-better-solution-for-validate-form-textboxs-value) html document follow the following steps:
Step1: create your html document as given below; note this is demo html file. However you can select/[choose](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/87863/why-you-should-not-choose-wordpress-for-making-a-website) you heavy/[large file](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/161604/how-can-you-measure-the-time-it-takes-to-read-or-write-a-large-file) to validate as need as you could use.
```
demo html page
this is demo Html page intended to validate
```
Step2: Open the [browser](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/323165/top-10-fastest-internet-browsers-in-the-world) and open the URL given above. ( http://validator.w3.org/)
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Now you have three options to refer the html document what you want to validate using the above html5 valuator.
1. Validate by URI: give the URI (URL) of your document to be validate.
2. Validate by File Upload: in this method you can upload your file (html document) to be validated.
3. Validate by Direct Input: in this method you can copy/paste or write document directly into this valuator.
Step3: Now after choosing any of the methods for inputting you html document for processing. Click on “Check “button as mention in screen shoot.
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As seen in above figure you can select various “check boxes from more option panel”. It depends on how you want to validate.
Step4: Now click on the Check button. You will display list of errors if any and warnings, suggestion etc.
##### The output generated by this validation is in subsequent figures as:
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I hope this [article](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81489/kashmir-now-after-an-year-of-abrogation-of-article-370) had been resolved the [problem](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81709/why-china-has-problem-with-norway-in-noble-prize-awarding) related to HTML document validation at standard level.
##### Thanks you.
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