gulp-w3c-html-validation

W3C html validation gulp plugin. Validate all files in a directory automatically.

Useful features:

• This plug-in generate the W3C error's source code context/reference from validated code. This will help users to find the error easily by just copy/paste from validated page source.
• This plug-in will validate all configured files/URLs.
• This plug-in will generate W3C reports in HTML format.

Getting Started

If you haven't used Gulp before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gulpfile as well as install and use Gulp plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install gulp-w3c-html-validation --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, add below line inside your Gulpfile:

const w3cValidation = require('gulp-w3c-html-validation');

The "validation" task

Overview

In your project's Gulpfile, add below code.

gulp.task('w3c', function() {
  return gulp.src('')
    .pipe(w3cValidation({
        generateCheckstyleReport: 'w3cErrors/validation.xml',
        remotePath: "http://decodize.com/", // use regex validation for domain check
        remoteFiles: ["blog/2013/03/03/getting-started-with-yeoman-1-dot-0-beta-on-windows/",
            "blog/2015/01/09/front-end-d-workflow-redefined-jade/",
            "blog/2013/08/07/front-end-viewpoints-architecture-building-large-websites/",
            "blog/2013/03/10/linktomob-share-your-links-quickly-and-easily-on-mobile-devices/",
            "blog/2013/02/09/slidemote-universal-remote-control-for-html5-presentations/"],
        relaxerror: ['Bad value X-UA-Compatible for attribute http-equiv on element meta.',
                        'Element title must not be empty.']
    }))
});

Options

options.errorFileFunction

Type: Mixed
Default value: undefined

This is a generator for the error file. It must be a function

options.generateReport

Type: Boolean
Default value: 'true' Flag to get the W3C errors to be generated in form of HTML files, if set to false then it will will not generate HTML report of errors.

Note: Error HTMLs files will be generated only if file/URL has some errors, in case of no error it will not generate the error file.

options.generateCheckstyleReport

Type: String
Default value: undefined

When a string is set ther will be generated a checkstyle report in this path.

options.errorHTMLRootDir

Type: String
Default value: w3cErrorFolder Sets the name for Root Folder which will contain W3C error HTMLs wrapped by another folder.

options.useTimeStamp

Type: String
Default value: 'true' If set to false then it will overwrite the error sub folder and will not have the Timestamp, folder name will be 'w3cErrors'.

options.errorTemplate

Type: String
Default value: w3c_validation_error_template.html Expects name for 'Handlebar' template to generate the error's HTMLs. Sample template is provided with plug-in in root folder.

options.request

Type object
Default value: undefined

Configuration for the request Module. For more information please read the docs.

options.serverUrl

Type: String
Default value: null

Supply a different validator server URL, for instance if you run a local server. Eg: http://localhost/w3c-validator/check

options.statusPath

Type: String
Default value: 'w3cErrors/validation-status.json'

Default file for storing validation information.

options.reportpath

Type: String
Default value: w3cErrors/validation-report.json

Consolidated report in JSON format, if reportpath is false it will not generated.

options.stoponerror

Type: Boolean
Default value: false

When hit by a validation error, html-validator continue validating next file by default and this process continues until all files in the list completes validation. If 'stoponerror' set to true, validator will stop validating next file.

options.maxTry

Type: Number
Default value: 3

Number of retries when network error occuers. Default case, after 3 reties validator will move to next file.

options.remotePath

Type: String
Default value: ``

options.remoteFiles

Type: Array
Default value: ``

Array of page paths to be validated. When remote files are not present validator will append file names from local folder. remotePath is mandatory when this option is specified.

eg:

remoteFiles: ['html/moving-from-wordpress-to-octopress/',
              'css/site-preloading-methods/']

you can also provide a file that contains an array of pages.

remoteFiles: 'validation-files.json'

['html/getting-started-with-yeoman-1-dot-0-beta-on-windows',
'html/slidemote-universal-remote-control-for-html5-presentations/',
'html/simple-responsive-image-technique/']

options.relaxerror

Type: Array
Default value: ``

Helps to skip certain w3c errors messages from validation. Give exact error message or a regular expression in an array & validator will ignore those relaxed errors from validation.

relaxerror: ['Bad value X-UA-Compatible for attribute http-equiv on element meta.',
             'document type does not allow element "[A-Z]+" here']

options.doctype

Type: String
Default value: false

Set false for autodetect or chose one of this options:

• HTML5
• XHTML 1.0 Strict
• XHTML 1.0 Transitional
• XHTML 1.0 Frameset
• HTML 4.01 Strict
• HTML 4.01 Transitional
• HTML 4.01 Frameset
• HTML 4.01 + RDFa 1.1
• HTML 3.2
• HTML 2.0
• ISO/IEC 15445:2000 ("ISO HTML")
• XHTML 1.1
• XHTML + RDFa
• XHTML Basic 1.0
• XHTML Basic 1.1
• XHTML Mobile Profile 1.2
• XHTML-Print 1.0
• XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0
• XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1
• MathML 2.0
• SVG 1.0
• SVG 1.1
• SVG 1.1 Tiny
• SVG 1.1 Basic
• SMIL 1.0
• SMIL 2.0

options.charset

Type: String
Default value: false

Set false for autodetect or chose one of this options:

• utf-8
• utf-16
• iso-8859-1
• iso-8859-2
• iso-8859-3
• iso-8859-4
• iso-8859-5
• iso-8859-6-i
• iso-8859-7
• iso-8859-8
• iso-8859-8-i
• iso-8859-9
• iso-8859-10
• iso-8859-11
• iso-8859-13
• iso-8859-14
• iso-8859-15
• iso-8859-16
• us-ascii
• euc-jp
• shift_jis
• iso-2022-jp
• euc-kr
• gb2312
• gb18030
• big5
• big5-HKSCS
• tis-620
• koi8-r
• koi8-u
• iso-ir-111
• macintosh
• windows-1250
• windows-1251
• windows-1252
• windows-1253
• windows-1254
• windows-1255
• windows-1256
• windows-1257

options.failHard

Type: boolean
Default value: false

If true, the task will fail at the end of its run if there were any validation errors that were not ignored via options.relaxerror.