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Other than submit individual web pages for verification on the W3C site, are there any standalone tools that will do this job.
Ideally this would be a visual studio plugin that could catch errors at design time but one that would just take a wep application url running locally would be good.
Open source suggestions would be preferable
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In order to validate your code, you have to declare the standard to which it adheres. To describe the HTML standard (the document type declaration, DTD), the file should contain a DOCTYPE declaration (before the HTML code). Here are a few examples (from http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html).
What is W3C Validation? World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) allows internet users to check HTML and XHTML documents for well-formatted markup.
Validator.w3.org is UP and reachable by us.
The W3C Markup Validator is an open source tool, which you can download and use it offline.
On Fedora, do:
yum install w3c-markup-validator
I use the FireFox plugin "HTMLTidy" to do this. When you are testing, you can point Firefox to your dev server (i.e. "http://localhost:52457/...") and it will work as if the site were live.
Also consider setting HTML errors to be raised as compile errors in VS and set your compatibility level/Doctype to XHTML 1.1 Strict to get them all. These settings are under Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> HTML -> Validation
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you could try with tidy
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