grunt-html-validator

Grunt plugin to enable HTML validation (based on the W3C API). Return a checkstyle xml file.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.2

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

npm install grunt-html-validator --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-html-validator');

The "html_validator" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named html_validator to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  'html_validator': {
      'validation': {
          'options': {
              'directories': ['C:\\Dev\\Git\\test']
          }
      }
  }
});

Options

options.verbose

Type: Boolean Default value: false

options.encoding

Type: String Default value: UTF-8

options.extensions

Type: Array<String> Default value: [ 'htm', 'html', 'tmpl', 'tpl' ] List of extensions to recognize HTML files

options.output

Type: String Default value: report-html-checkstyle.xml Where to place your checkstyle report

options.directories

Type: Array<String> Default value: null Mandatory ! You have to specify in which folders you want to analyze your HTML files

options.subdirectories

Type: Boolean Default value: false Shall we search in sub-directories ?

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

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