Validate html files with htmlhint.

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

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-htmlhint --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-htmlhint');

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

See all rules here: https://github.com/yaniswang/HTMLHint/wiki/Rules

If options is empty, task will scan nothing.

Type: String Default value: null

If this filename is specified, options and globals defined therein will be used. Task and target options override the options within the htmlhintrc file. The htmlhintrc file must be valid JSON and looks something like this:

{ "tag-pair": true, }

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Report HTMLHint errors but dont fail the task

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Tagname must be lowercase More details -- https://github.com/yaniswang/HTMLHint/wiki/Tagname-lowercase

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Attribute name must be lowercase. More details -- https://github.com/yaniswang/HTMLHint/wiki/Attr-lowercase

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Attribute value must closed by double quotes. More details -- https://github.com/yaniswang/HTMLHint/wiki/Attr-value-double-quotes

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Attribute must set value. More details -- https://github.com/yaniswang/HTMLHint/wiki/Attr-value-not-empty

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Doctype must be first element on the page. More details -- https://github.com/yaniswang/HTMLHint/wiki/Doctype-first

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Tag must be paired. More details -- https://github.com/yaniswang/HTMLHint/wiki/Tag-pair

Type: Boolean Default value: false

The empty tag must closed by self. More details -- https://github.com/yaniswang/HTMLHint/wiki/Tag-self-close

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Special characters must be escaped. More details -- https://github.com/yaniswang/HTMLHint/wiki/Spec-char-escape

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Element Id's must be unique More details -- https://github.com/yaniswang/HTMLHint/wiki/Id-unique

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Src of img(script,link) must set value. Emtpy of src will visit current page twice. More details -- https://github.com/yaniswang/HTMLHint/wiki/Src-not-empty

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Alt of img tag must be set value. More details -- https://github.com/yaniswang/HTMLHint/wiki/Img-alt-require

htmlhint: { html1: { options: { 'tag-pair': true }, src: ['path/to/**/*.html'] }, html2: { options: { 'tag-pair': true }, src: ['path/to/**/*.html'] } }

htmlhint: { options: { htmlhintrc: '.htmlhintrc' }, html1: { src: ['path/to/**/*.html'] }, html2: { src: ['path/to/**/*.html'] } }

• 2013-4-6   v0.4.0   First release