The W3C Markup Validation Service

Validate by URI
Validate by File Upload
Validate by Direct Input

Validate by URI

Validate a document online:

Address:

Character Encoding		Only if missing
Document Type		Only if missing
List Messages Sequentially Group Error Messages by Type
Show Source	Clean up Markup with HTML-Tidy
Show Outline	Validate error pages	Verbose Output

Check

Validate Full Document
Use Doctype:		Only if Doctype is missing
Validate HTML fragment
Use Doctype:	HTML 4.01 XHTML 1.0
List Messages Sequentially Group Error Messages by Type
Show Source	Clean up Markup with HTML-Tidy
Show Outline	Validate error pages	Verbose Output

This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets, MobileOK content, or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools available. As an alternative you can also try our non-DTD-based validator.

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