w3cvalidator

A node.js library for testing files or url's against the w3c html and css validator. Forked from https://github.com/thomasdavis/w3cjs

Installation

npm install w3cvalidator

Usage

var w3cvalidator = require('w3cvalidator');

var results = w3cvalidator.validate({
	file: 'style.css', // file can either be a local file or a remote file
	//file: 'http://html5boilerplate.com/',
	//input: '<html>...</html>',
	//input: myBuffer,
	output: 'json', // Defaults to 'json', other option includes html
	doctype: 'HTML5', // Defaults false for autodetect
	charset: 'utf-8', // Defaults false for autodetect
	//proxy: 'http://proxy:8080', // Default to null
	callback: function (res) {
		console.log(res);
		// depending on the output type, res will either be a json object or a html string
	},
	// section for css validation
	validate: 'css', // defaults to html
	profile: 'css3', // possible profiles are: none, css1, css2, css21, css3, svg, svgbasic, svgtiny, mobile, atsc-tv, tv
	medium: 'all', // possible media are: all, aural, braille, embossed, handheld, print, projection, screen, tty, tv, presentation
	warnings: 'no' // possible warnings are: 2 (all), 1 (normal), 0 (most important), no (no warnings)
});

Example async testing with Mocha

var w3cvalidator = require('w3cvalidator');
describe('html and css validation', function(){
	it('index page should have no html errors', function(done){
		w3cvalidator.validate({
			file: 'index.html',
			callback: function (res) {
					console.log(res);
				if (res.messages.length > 0 ) {
					throw {error: 'html errors have been found', results: res};
				};
				done();
			}
		})
	})
})

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