Product Description HTML Validation

[lloyd_borrett]

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G&#39;day,</p>
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Has anyone come up with an easy way to check product descriptions for correct HTML validation? When people new to HTML add products, HTML validation errors creep in. It would be great to have a way to check for this.</p>
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Best regards, Lloyd Borrett.</p>

[gilby]

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G'day,</p>
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Has anyone come up with an easy way to check product descriptions for correct HTML validation? When people new to HTML add products, HTML validation errors creep in. It would be great to have a way to check for this.</p>
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Best regards, Lloyd Borrett.</p>

I hand code and use FireFox with Developers Tools (and others) extension to check page validity.

btw: Time to update, 1.3.5 is ancient

[lloyd_borrett]

G&#39;day, I run a Zen Cart based ecommerce business where five different people edit the products. Most of the others aren&#39;t as aware of HTML rules and don&#39;t check HTML validation properly. So I&#39;m after a way to just automatically check on the validity of what&#39;s in the database rather than 2500+ full product pages. Obviously the same solution should also be able to be used on other appropriate table values, but that&#39;s not essential. Best regards, Lloyd Borrett.

[torvista]

While you could spend a lot of time to devise a way to automatically check all these pages, you'll still have to fix them one at a time.
So you may as well view and fix them one at a time.

If you have products that are similar ie use the same descriptions you could use boilerplate text where the description is defined in a constant and the constant is used in the description ie WIDGETS_COMMON
so reducing potential errors.

Or, maybe you could export all the descriptions and create some macro to check for balanced tags. Much easier to fix the text in a spreadsheet and re-import it.

Or, you could/should enforce responsibility on those who write the descriptions that they check their own work, it's not that difficult to understand html.

I write all complicated html descriptions in Dreamweaver on a static page to get it valid before using it.