HTML Validation — Complete Guide
HTML Validation — Complete Guide: free step-by-step lesson with examples, common mistakes, and interview tips — part of HTML Tutorial on Toolliyo Academy.
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HTML Tutorial · Lesson 81 of 100
HTML Validation
Basics ✓ → Forms & semantics ✓ → APIs & performance ✓ → Projects
Projects · 4 — MarkupVerse builds · ~10 min · HTML — Testing & Deployment
What is this?
HTML validation checks markup against the spec — unclosed tags and invalid nesting break parsers.
Why should you care?
MarkupVerse CI runs the validator so one bad merge does not break all layouts.
See it live — copy this example
Save as demo.html and open in your browser, or use Run Example below.
<ul>
<li>Valid: <strong>MarkupVerse</strong> list item</li>
<li>Second item</li>
</ul>
<!-- invalid would be: <ul><div><li>broken</li></div></ul> -->
Run Example »
Edit the code below and click Run to see the result in Toolliyo’s live editor.
What happened?
- Block elements like div cannot sit between ul and li.
- Run validator.w3.org or html-validate in CI.
Practice next
- Validate a sample page.
- Fix nesting errors.
- Add validate script to package.json.
- Validate after template partials merge.
- Add aria fixes validator suggests.
Remember
Correct nesting. CI validation. Fix don’t ignore warnings.
MarkupVerse CI validate
PR adds div-wrapped list items.
Outcome: Pipeline fails before merge to main.
Interview prep for this lesson
Practice these questions aloud after reading—each links to a full structured answer.
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