December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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22.8 Cleaning Up Your HTML with HTML Tidy
HTML Tidy is the only validation service that can actually solve your problems for you. It has the same inputs as the W3C’s offering (see 22.6 Checking Web Pages with the W3C Markup Validation Service), but with many additional options. The only difference in scope between Tidy and the W3C’s validator is that the W3C Validation Service will validate an entire site, while HTML Tidy processes only the page to which you point it.
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Tool | HTML Tidy |
Versions covered | http://tidy.sourceforge.net (desktop tool); http://www.infohound.net/tidy/ (web site) |
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Power Tools page | |
Summary | Free open source web (or desktop) tool that will parse your HTML and correct any issues that it encounters |
License type | W3C |
Online resources | Mailing list, bug tracker, FAQ |
Related tools in this book | W3C Markup Validation Service, WebXACT |
Getting Started
HTML Tidy is available as both a desktop application and an online service. We’ll focus on using the web site in this article, but the desktop application may be more convenient if you have a large number of pages to validate.
Using HTML Tidy
HTML Tidy allows you to determine what to look at, what to change, and how the results should be formatted. It returns you a version of your page with all of the specified issues corrected. If you want your ...
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