HTML Tidy
HTML Tidy is a powerful command-line utility designed to help developers clean, format, and validate HTML code. It ensures your web pages adhere to standards, improving accessibility, maintainability, and search engine optimization. By automatically fixing common markup errors, indenting code for readability, and wrapping long lines, HTML Tidy streamlines the web development workflow.
Clean and Format HTML Code
Use HTML Tidy to automatically correct malformed HTML, remove unwanted tags, and ensure consistent indentation. This makes your codebase cleaner and easier to manage.
Validate HTML Standards
Ensure your HTML documents comply with web standards. HTML Tidy can identify and fix issues that might cause rendering problems across different browsers.
Command-Line Usage Example
Here's a common command to tidy an HTML file, enabling indentation, wrapping lines at column 160, and outputting to a new file:
# Enable indentation, wrap lines at column 160, messages to stdout:
tidy -i -wrap 160 -o output.html input.html
Key Features and Benefits
- Code Formatting: Automatically indents and beautifies HTML for better readability.
- Error Correction: Fixes common HTML syntax errors and malformed tags.
- Standard Compliance: Helps ensure your HTML adheres to W3C standards.
- Line Wrapping: Prevents excessively long lines, improving code clarity.
- Cross-Browser Compatibility: Reduces issues caused by invalid HTML.