| HTML::Lint - check for HTML errors in a string or file |
new()parser()errors()clear_errors()
HTML::Lint - check for HTML errors in a string or file
Version 2.22
my $lint = HTML::Lint->new;
$lint->only_types( HTML::Lint::Error::STRUCTURE );
$lint->parse( $data );
$lint->parse_file( $filename );
my $error_count = $lint->errors;
foreach my $error ( $lint->errors ) {
print $error->as_string, "\n";
}
HTML::Lint also comes with a wrapper program called weblint that handles linting from the command line:
$ weblint http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.cnn.com/ (395:83) <IMG SRC="spacer.gif"> tag has no HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes.
http://www.cnn.com/ (395:83) <IMG SRC="goofus.gif"> does not have ALT text defined
http://www.cnn.com/ (396:217) Unknown element <nobr>
http://www.cnn.com/ (396:241) </nobr> with no opening <nobr>
http://www.cnn.com/ (842:7) target attribute in <a> is repeated
And finally, you can also get the Apache::HTML::Lint manpage that passes any mod_perl-generated code through HTML::Lint and get it dumped into your Apache error_log.
[Mon Jun 3 14:03:31 2002] [warn] /foo.pl (1:45) </p> with no opening <p>
[Mon Jun 3 14:03:31 2002] [warn] /foo.pl (1:49) Unknown element <gronk>
[Mon Jun 3 14:03:31 2002] [warn] /foo.pl (1:56) Unknown attribute "x" for tag <table>
NOTE: Some of these methods mirror the HTML::Parser manpage's methods, but HTML::Lint is not a subclass of HTML::Parser.
new()Create an HTML::Lint object, which inherits from HTML::Parser.
You may pass the types of errors you want to check for in the
only_types parm.
my $lint = HTML::Lint->new( only_types => HTML::Lint::Error::STRUCTURE );
If you want more than one, you must pass an arrayref:
my $lint = HTML::Lint->new(
only_types => [HTML::Lint::Error::STRUCTURE, HTML::Lint::Error::FLUFF] );
parser()Returns the parser object for this object, creating one if necessary.
Passes in a chunk of HTML to be linted, either as a piece of text,
or a code reference.
See the HTML::Parser manpage's parse_file method for details.
Analyzes HTML directly from a file. The $file argument can be a filename,
an open file handle, or a reference to an open file handle.
See the HTML::Parser manpage's parse_file method for details.
Signals the end of a block of text getting passed in. This must be called to make sure that all parsing is complete before looking at errors.
Any parameters (and there shouldn't be any) are passed through to
HTML::Parser's eof() method.
errors()In list context, errors returns all of the errors found in the
parsed text. Each error is an object of the type the HTML::Lint::Error manpage.
In scalar context, it returns the number of errors found.
clear_errors()Clears the list of errors, in case you want to print and clear, print and clear.
Specifies to only want errors of a certain type.
$lint->only_types( HTML::Lint::Error::STRUCTURE );
Calling this without parameters makes the object return all possible errors.
The error types are STRUCTURE, HELPER and FLUFF.
See the HTML::Lint::Error manpage for details on these types.
Adds an error message, in the form of an the HTML::Lint::Error manpage object, to the list of error messages for the current object. The file, line and column are automatically passed to the the HTML::Lint::Error manpage constructor, as well as whatever other key value pairs are passed.
For example:
$lint->gripe( 'attr-repeated', tag => $tag, attr => $attr );
Usually, the user of the object won't call this directly, but just in case, here you go.
Call newfile() whenever you switch to another file in a batch
of linting. Otherwise, the object thinks everything is from the
same file. Note that the list of errors is NOT cleared.
Note that $filename does NOT need to match what's put into parse()
or parse_file(). It can be a description, a URL, or whatever.
Sometimes you'll have HTML that for some reason cannot conform to HTML::Lint's expectations. For those instances, you can use HTML comments to modify HTML::Lint's behavior.
Say you have an image where for whatever reason you can't get dimensions for the image. This HTML snippet:
<img src="logo.png" height="120" width="50" alt="Company logo">
<img src="that.png">
causes this error:
foo.html (14:20) <img src="that.png"> tag has no HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes
But if for some reason you can't get those dimensions when you build the page, you can at least stop HTML::Lint complaining about it.
<img src="this.png" height="120" width="50" alt="Company logo">
<!-- html-lint elem-img-sizes-missing: off, elem-img-alt-missing: off -->
<img src="that.png">
<!-- html-lint elem-img-sizes-missing: on, elem-img-alt-missing: off -->
If you want to turn off all HTML::Lint warnings for a block of code, use
<!-- html-lint all: off -->
And turn them back on with
<!-- html-lint all: off -->
You don't have to use ``on'' and ``off''. For ``on'', you can use ``true'' or ``1''. For ``off'', you can use ``0'' or ``false''.
For a list of possible errors and their codes, see the HTML::Lint::Error manpage, or run perldoc HTML::Lint::Error.
All bugs and requests are now being handled through GitHub.
https://github.com/petdance/html-lint/issues
DO NOT send bug reports to http://rt.cpan.org/ or http://code.google.com/
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Copyright 2005-2015 Andy Lester.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License v2.0.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-2.0
Please note that these modules are not products of or supported by the employers of the various contributors to the code.
Andy Lester, andy at petdance.com
| HTML::Lint - check for HTML errors in a string or file |