CSS markup validation

[Roedy Green]

I have found lots of tools to;

1. validate CSS
2. validate HTML
3. check HTML links

But I have so far found nothing to check cross check the style used in
markup with the style sheet to make sure I spelled all the styles as
in class="xxx" correctly. You could consider it a sort of style spell
checker.

Writing one should not be too tough. You extract the style names from
the style sheet with regexes and from the documents with regexes and
list styles in one list but not the other.

I was talking with Albert Wiersch at CSE HTMLValidator. He said the
problem was trickier than it first looks, and that is why his tool
does not handle it.

You could even construct a bulk fix, giving the old/bad name and the
new/good name for style. You could reuse the script to fix your common
typos or to standardise to get rid of aliases.

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[Blinky the Shark]

Roedy Green wrote:

I have found lots of tools to; 1. validate CSS
2. validate HTML
3. check HTML links But I have so far found nothing to check cross check the style used in
markup with the style sheet to make sure I spelled all the styles as
in class="xxx" correctly. You could consider it a sort of style spell
checker. Writing one should not be too tough. You extract the style names from
the style sheet with regexes and from the documents with regexes and
list styles in one list but not the other. I was talking with Albert Wiersch at CSE HTMLValidator. He said the
problem was trickier than it first looks, and that is why his tool
does not handle it. You could even construct a bulk fix, giving the old/bad name and the
new/good name for style. You could reuse the script to fix your common
typos or to standardise to get rid of aliases.

In the meantime, here's a workaround for manual checking in an
organized fashion. The command:

grep -rn --context=0 --color=always class= * | sort | more

recursively (be in your doc root dir) displays a scrollable list of every
line containing string class= , gives the filename and path and line
number of the string, and colorizes the string to make its value easy to find.

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/comp/classgrep.gif

It's not pretty, but a quick scan to look for names that don't look right
should help. And grep/sed gurus might be able to make it a bit more
sophisticated. :)

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