
I just had an ‘aha’ moment that I’m sure many others are waiting to have. I’ve used the W3C Markup Validation service for a long time. Sometimes, it can be challenging to find the little snippet of markup displayed by the validator within my html document. Although the markup validator shows a line and column number, it never jibes up with my markup in my html editor.
Tonight, while looking for a really obscure list item tag error, I had my ‘aha’ moment. While displaying the html page in Firefox, click on ‘view source’. Do it all the time, right? Well, up under the ‘EDIT’ menu is ‘Go To Line…’ (or just press Ctrl + L). Type in the line number given by the W3C validator and your there.
I tried finding a similar feature with the ‘View Source’ option on Internet Explorer 6. It, of course, opens up Note Pad. Which, doesn’t seem to have any such ‘Line Number’ option.