Article Discussion: Using HTML-Kit to Debug Server-Side Scripts

Browsers are notorious for rendering HTML pages perfectly even when a page contains errors. For instance, a button may display properly but not function because of a missing closing tag. Hence the need for tools to check syntax. This is relatively straightforward for static HTML pages but what about dynamic pages? When server-side technologies such as PHP or ASP are used to create HTML pages dynamically, checking and debugging the result can be difficult. This article will show how this can be done using the free text editor, HTML-Kit. This will involve configuring some of the features of this editor. No knowledge of any specific technologies is required but a general knowledge of HTML and of the function of browsers and web servers is assumed.


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I just thought I would post the email I received from the developer who created HTML-Kit.

Hi Peter,

I just thought I'd drop a quick note to thank you for taking the time to

write about HTML-Kit. It was nice to see your article. I've added a link to

it from the HTML-Kit homepage.

I was also pleasantly surprised to see a new article this morning. The steps

you've described indeed work. Because you're using parts of the program that

one is likely to use as part of the normal editing process anyway, it's

probably a more natural way to open HTML source. Just for reference, please

note that it's also possible to use a browser window inside HTML-Kit to

validate server-side source:

http://htmlkit.com/go/faq/validate_dynamic_pages Or this new plugin can be

used to check for common errors and accessibility issues while browsing:

http://htmlkit.com/go/plugin/hkBrowseAndTest

Thanks again.

Regards,

Chami.