# To validate or not to validate? - that is the question!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/to-validate-or-not-to-validate-that-is-the-question/155082>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [July 14, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/to-validate-or-not-to-validate-that-is-the-question/155082 "2005-07-14T16:45:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![thedaveyb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@thedaveyb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thedaveyb)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/to-validate-or-not-to-validate-that-is-the-question/155082/1 "2005-07-14T16:45:25Z")

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ok this may end up more of a discussion rather than a issue with anything specific… but where do you draw the line on validation…

the site im thinking of is currently work in progress… [www.onsetcold.co/index1.htm](http://www.onsetcold.co/index1.htm)…

the code is well written clean css on the main page - not the iframe… the iframe content does contain transitional html and does include a few tables etc…

now i know im gonna be handing over a proportion of the site to the band members and i know within weeks there will be \<font\> tags appearing etc… in the iframe…

so… why validate at all?

becuase as a purist of the web i want to design to that standard… surely a common thing on this forum… so thinking do i just validate the main page and leave the iframe… is there a way i can validate the main page and the iframes… or is it worth just forgetting it all together??

help!?