Description Nathan Baum 2009-04-20 15:25:29 EDT

(My Web Standard Tools says I'm using version 3.0.4, which isn't in the list of options above.)

The HTML validator doesn't appear to provide any way to flag missing required attributes (such as img's alt, or style's type), whether as warnings or errors. This obviously makes the validator less useful.

The document cleanup tool must know which attributes are required, since it will put them in if they are missing. It doesn't tell you where it inserted them, however, so that isn't a useable substitute for attributes where Eclipse's idea of the default value isn't necessarily what you want, such as img/alt, where the default is empty.

The validator should check for missing required attributes and flag them as it does other errors in the document.