ValidatePrivatePage <– validates in current window

ValidatePrivatePage <– validates in new window (your pop-up blocker may complain)

If you need to validate the markup of a page that’s not public (e.g. on localhost), you can now use this bookmarklet to auto-submit the current page source to the validator (instead of viewing source, copying, opening the validator, pasting in, and pressing “check”).

Note: this gets the page source making an XMLHTTPRequest to the current URL, so it does not get interpreted by the browser; i.e. this is NOT based on innerHTML(). If the request made returns a different page (e.g. you were logged out in the meantime), that page’s source will be sent to the validator. Not much can be done about that. I once wrote a crusty PHP4 class/bookmarklet combo that helped do this, but thanks to the standardization of XMLHTTPRequest, this is easy in JS now. You should also thank W3C for allowing cross-domain POSTs to the validator :)