Some way to identify Closing Tags?

[august]

What's a convenient way to identify which closing html tag belongs to which opening html tag?

Say if you have a lot of p tags with id's and class attributes, and want to know where the p with an id of "p1" closes, if you've forgotten?

[felgall]

Since you can't nest paragraphs within paragraphs, the next </p> following the <p id="p1"> will be the closing tag that matches that opening tag. Figuring out which close tag matches which open tag only becomes a problem with those tags you can nest inside one another such as <div><div><div></div></div></div>.

[Charles]

The traditioanl way to keep it straight is to use indentation.

[august]

felgall, p tags, it was just for example. But let's say you have div tags, what then?

Is there a way to know once you've messed up?

[Charles]

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

http://validator.w3.org/

[KenJackson]

Use emacs, html mode.
Position the cursor on an opening tag, press C-c right-arrow, and the cursor jumps to the matching closing tag.

[august]

Thanks, shoulda used the w3c's validator (told you it was confusion:)