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HTML Tidy
Original author(s)Dave Raggett
Developer(s)HTML Tidy Advocacy Community Group
Repository
Written inC[1]
Operating systemBSD, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows
TypeLibrary, Console Application
LicenseW3C Software Notice and License
Websitewww.html-tidy.org

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 [3] of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), then released as a SourceForge[4] project in 2003 and managed by various maintainers.

In 2012 the project was moved to GitHub[5] and maintained by Michael Smith, also of W3C,[6] where critical HTML5 support was added.

In 2015 the HTML Tidy Advocacy Community Group (HTACG)[7] was formed to take over management and development of HTML Tidy as a W3C Community Group.[8]

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

  1. ^ "Repository". Github.org. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  2. ^ "Repository". Github.org. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  3. ^ Raggett, Dave. "Clean up your Web pages with HTML TIDY". W3C.org. Retrieved 2015-02-12. (Dave Raggett's legacy HTML Tidy page.)
  4. ^ "SourceForge.net Repository - [tidy] Index of /". Tidy.cvs.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  5. ^ tidy-html5 on GitHub
  6. ^ Smith, Michael. "Michael[tm] Smith". W3C.org. Retrieved 2015-02-12.
  7. ^ "HTACG". HTACG.org. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  8. ^ Jim Derry. "HTML Tidy Advocacy Community Group". W3.org. Retrieved 2015-04-25.


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