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Show HN: Command line tool to validate HTML5 files

• johnhenry 11y ago
  Interesting. How would you compare and contrast this to something like HTML Tidy? (http://www.html-tidy.org/ http://www.html-tidy.org/)?
  • zween 11y ago
    HTML Tidy seems like a powerful tool although I am having a hard time to find from their docs whether they do simple validation (I guess it does given that you ask the question). This html5validator gives you a simple yes/no answer whether some files are HTML5 valid. It is based on the same backend that powers https://html5.validator.nu/ https://html5.validator.nu/. It can be integrated in continuous integration. The README contains example configurations for TravisCI and CircleCI.
    • johnhenry 11y ago
      I think the continuous integration is key to emphasise. HTML Tidy does validation as its default action (tidy <html file>), but unlike this, it doesn't seem to be able to target an entire directory (html5validator --root <directory of html files>), so there's another difference there.
  • zween 11y ago
    HTML Tidy is only for Mac? Focus of html5validator is on continuous integration and Linux is a must for that.