11 HTML Tools and Validators

HTML development tools facilitate developers and beginner alike-to easily create better HTML pages in lesser  time.  While Validators help you insure that your HTML pages display properly on all browsers.  Here is a list of HTML tools and validators that would help you learn, code, validate your HTML pages in a hassle free manner.

Character Guides

Character Reference

character-reference

It lists 252 usable characters in HTML and also shows you their coding via mouse rollover. The entities are divided and color coded into logical categories. All you need to do is click on a box to filter the entities by their category.

Special Characters

special-characters

It is a chart that lists just about every character in HTML along with its codes, its description, and the process of how it is to be used.

HTMLPlayground.com

htmlplayground

It offers a list of tags and as soon as you click on a tag, you get an explanation of what it does, how to write the code and how it would appear on a page.

Webmonkey.com

webmonkey

It is a great site that offers general HTML tips, but this page specifically teaches you the special characters such as ♥.

Tools

Aptana

aptana

It is an open source editor that will edit HTML, CSS, create AJAX apps, do Ruby On Rails, and more.

Bluefish

bluefish

Bluefish is a powerful open source HTML editor that is targeted towards programmers and web designers. It offers many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites– It  runs on systems such as Linux, FreeBSD Mac OS X and more.

HTMLKit.com

htmlkit

A free editor for HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS; it includes Tidy HTML to make sure your code stays clean.

Pingdom Tools

pingdom-tools

It helps you get a visual representation of how long each item took to load. All you have to do is enter your site address and the Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes), mimicking the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars

Test Everything

test-everything

It provides numerous tools to check every aspect of your site, including code validators.

Validators

AnyBrowser.com

anybrowser

It offers a wide array of tools for testing your site in different browsers, including an HTML validator.

AlwaysValid.com

alwaysvalid

It automatically checks your HTML once a week and mails you the results, specifying the problem areas and the reasons why they are not working properly.

Hope that these tools help code and validate you HTML easily and quickly. Please share your suggestions and feedback with us.

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