I'm in the middle of a fairly large conversion of a site from table layout to css. The site has well over 100 pages. It's been fairly simple till now. I created a skeleton for each page and completed the whole site, except for the content. For the content, I then copied the main content sections of the old site and have been modifying them to meet standards, or other changes if necessary.
I've now come to a section that contains a huge annual report with many spreadsheets. Of course these contain many unnecessary things like <font> tags and the like. The main report page had over 1200 errors when run through the validator right after inserting the main content into the skeleton. (I only checked for grins.) Surprisingly, the page actually looks good in ie, ff, and ns. It even looked good in the Lynx Viewer, except one of the tables needed headers. Somebody slap me on the wrist and tell me that doesn't mean I can ignore the problems and I still have to fix it.
Question is, is the any software out there that can take this error filled code and clean it up with the touch of a button so I don't have to do all this busy work? I'm spending most of my time getting rid of things like capitalized tags, useless tables, putting tags in correct order, adding a / to tags like img and br, etc.
If anyone knows of anything that can save me some time, please let me know!Tidy (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://infohound.net/tidy/">http://infohound.net/tidy/</a><!-- m -->) should help.Thanks, you may have saved me hours of work. I thought I had heard of something like that, but couldn't remember where. Still didn't get rid of some depricated tags that I've already fixed in the stylesheet, but I only gave it a quick tryout. Maybe I'll find it can fix even more with some experimentation. Thanks again, this forum has saved me lots of time over and over again.
I've now come to a section that contains a huge annual report with many spreadsheets. Of course these contain many unnecessary things like <font> tags and the like. The main report page had over 1200 errors when run through the validator right after inserting the main content into the skeleton. (I only checked for grins.) Surprisingly, the page actually looks good in ie, ff, and ns. It even looked good in the Lynx Viewer, except one of the tables needed headers. Somebody slap me on the wrist and tell me that doesn't mean I can ignore the problems and I still have to fix it.
Question is, is the any software out there that can take this error filled code and clean it up with the touch of a button so I don't have to do all this busy work? I'm spending most of my time getting rid of things like capitalized tags, useless tables, putting tags in correct order, adding a / to tags like img and br, etc.
If anyone knows of anything that can save me some time, please let me know!Tidy (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://infohound.net/tidy/">http://infohound.net/tidy/</a><!-- m -->) should help.Thanks, you may have saved me hours of work. I thought I had heard of something like that, but couldn't remember where. Still didn't get rid of some depricated tags that I've already fixed in the stylesheet, but I only gave it a quick tryout. Maybe I'll find it can fix even more with some experimentation. Thanks again, this forum has saved me lots of time over and over again.