JQuery to validate HTML in TextArea

Question

I have a TextArea that allows the user to enter HTML, what I'm trying to do now is check the users HTML to make sure that it is XHTML.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can use the DOM Parser to find out if the content is XML.

See here .

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SNIPPET:

if (window.DOMParser) { parser=new DOMParser(); xmlDoc=parser.parseFromString(text,"text/xml"); } else // Internet Explorer { xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM"); xmlDoc.async="false"; xmlDoc.loadXML(text); } 

Answer 2

I would suggest using regular expressions. Start with this post here.

I have not seen a jquery plugin that does exactly what you want, but I'm sure you can modify some existing validations.