HTML Tidy
| Original author(s) | Dave Raggett |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | HTML Tidy Advocacy Community Group |
| Written in | C[1] |
| Operating system | BSD, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Library, Console Application |
| License | W3C Software Notice and License |
| Website |
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HTML Tidy is a console application whose purpose is to fix invalid HTML, detect potential web accessibility errors, and improve the layout and indent style of the resulting markup. It is also a cross-platform library that can be used by programmers in computer applications to add HTML Tidy's capabilities to them.
History
It was first developed by Dave Raggett [2] of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), then released as a SourceForge[3] project in 2003 and managed by various maintainers.
In 2012 the project was moved to GitHub[4] and maintained by Michael Smith, also of W3C,[5] where critical HTML5 support was added.
In 2015 the HTML Tidy Advocacy Community Group (HTACG)[6] was formed to take over management and development of HTML Tidy as a W3C Community Group.[7]
Its source code is written in ANSI C for maximum portability and compiled binary files are available for a variety of platforms. It is available under the W3C Software Notice and License (a permissive, BSD-style license). Up-to-date versions are currently available only as source code, cloned from its GitHub git version control repository.
Examples of fixes it can make to bad HTML:
- Straighten mixed-up tags
- Fix missing or mismatched end tags
- Add missing items (some tags, quotes, ...)
- Report proprietary HTML extensions
- Change layout of markup to predefined style
- Transform characters from some encodings into HTML entities
See also
References
- ↑ "Repository". Github.org. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
- ↑ Raggett, Dave. "Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY". W3C.org. Retrieved 2015-02-12. (Dave Raggett's legacy HTML Tidy page.)
- ↑ "SourceForge.net Repository - [tidy] Index of /". Tidy.cvs.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
- ↑ tidy-html5 on GitHub
- ↑ Smith, Michael. "Michael[tm] Smith". W3C.org. Retrieved 2015-02-12.
- ↑ "HTACG". HTACG.org. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
- ↑ Jim Derry. "HTML Tidy Advocacy Community Group". W3.org. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
External links
- HTML Tidy Project Page
- Current Source Code
- HTML Tidy Project Page (legacy)
- HTML Tidy Online
- HTML Tidy service an online version of W3C's HTML checker (warning: outdated)
- Mozilla/Firefox extension for HTML validation based on Tidy
- Tidy PHP extension overview
- HTML Tidy for Windows, Batch Files for the Command Prompt
- Balthisar Tidy, a GUI version of Tidy for Mac OS X that uses Tidy-HTML5.
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