How to validate HTML 5 in HomeSite

Question

It's frustrating to get validation errors in HomeSite when working with HTML 5 elements such as video and canvas.
Luckily, there's a fairly simple way to enable these elements to be validated.
Quick description below...
1. Select XHTML 1.0 Strict as the DTD.
2. Open the Validation panel in the Settings dialog: Options > Settings > Validation.
3. Make sure XHTML 1.0 Strict is the only checked item in the Version column.
4. Click the Validator Settings.. button, select the Tags tab and select XHTML 1.0 Strict.
5. Click Add... and add tags as appropriate.
6. Add tags as appropriate, such as video, audio or canvas.
7. For each new tag, click on the Attributes (or Required Attributes) folder and click Add... to add attributes (such as src or id). For each attribute, click on the attribute, click on Add...and add a Value: double quoted string and Quoted string work for src and id.
8. Click on the Context folder, click the Add... button and add the names of valid containing elements. For example, for video, add div. Do the reverse for elements that can be contained. For example, add video to the Context for p to enable p elements to be valid children of video elements.
You should now be able to validate your code without error.
You can also set up HomeSite tag wizards for for HTML 5 elements, but that's another story -- more information here: http://evolt.org/article/Getting_XHTML_from_HomeSite_4_5/21/3466/.

Answer 1

Thanks for posting this.
jeff