{"id":217,"date":"2006-11-02T11:40:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T19:40:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:32","slug":"drag-n-validate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/11\/drag-n-validate","title":{"rendered":"Drag N’ Validate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever find yourself debugging XHTML via your browser’s View Source command? I do it all the time. You know the routine:<\/p>\n

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  1. You add a module somewhere on the page and it’s borking your layout.<\/li>\n
  2. You hit View Source<\/code>.<\/li>\n
  3. You drag-select the module in question, paste it into a Stickie Note, manually indent your tag tree with tabs, and then find out where your tags are unbalanced.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    It’s a pain in the ass and maybe there’s a better way to do it, but here’s a tool I’d love to see:<\/p>\n

    Drag N’ Validate (or Dragon Validate)<\/strong> — Drag select a block of XHTML in any application, right click to pull up a contextual “Validate” menu, and the application will autotab the block for you and point out any validation errors.<\/p>\n

    That would be money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Ever find yourself debugging XHTML via your browser’s View Source command? I do it all the time. You know the routine: You add a module somewhere on the page and it’s borking your layout. You hit View Source. You drag-select the module in question, paste it into a Stickie Note, manually indent your tag tree […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}