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20170519: Although Tidy has it own QuickRef site, this is just a copy of the latest quickref-5.5.24...
20150806: Update: After being quite happy for a few years with my development version of HTML Tidy, with its reasonable HTML5 support, I found the energy to try to fully complete a HTML5 aware Tidy5, without losing any of the former functionality.
I am now working with the https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5 repo, and recently commenced a release process for verion 5.0.0, the first release for years. You can either clone the source, and build it locally, it does not have any 'special' dependencies, or some binaries are provided here http://www.htacg.org/binaries/, and hopefully soon to be found in the unix/linux/MAC/Win binary distribution pipelines...
My cloned https://github.com/geoffmcl/tidy-fork is now abandoned. I do to rebase it to the above master branch now and then, but it should be considered out-of-date ;=().
As always, a big thanks for Bjoern's Nov 2011 patch. That for me kick started getting Tidy! fully HTML5 aware.
Writing HTML can be a bit of a pain ... it is just too easy to make a mistake ... this crossplatform utilitiy - Tidy! - can sometimes help - http://www.html-tidy.org/! Try it out.
Most of the following is more like water under the bridge, left here to document my involvement with the Tidy! project...
This original site http://tidy.sourceforge.net - still exists, but the source code available via CVS, is now very out of date.
You can also read more about the original at - http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ -
This is its cute little logo, that you could add to your page - - It takes some time to get used to the many, MANY command line parameters that control the action of Tidy... Some attempts at a GUI version do exist.
Of course, you could download the FULL SOURCE, and compile Tidy yourself, but if you just want to try it, here are some WIN32 binary, in ZIP files. Click on the most recent zip file link below, or right mouse click, and choose 'Save Target As...' to download the zip file to your computer, check the MD5 sum, and then extract the EXE file in the zip into one of your PATH folders.
You can check your available PATH folders by opening a 'Command Prompt', and typing
> PATH<enter>
You should see a list of paths, separated by a semi-colon (;). The most common one is
C:\WINDOWS, although this is not usually the recommended location ...
As part of the 20140806 update, I again implemented the cmake build system, including a 64-bit windows build.
20150806: These are no longer maintained. See above for getting binaries and source... top
2011-01-11:14: Commenced update including HTML5 support (on going), and the 'dev' version has a patch to output error messages in a form suitable for use with MSVC - set tidydev.exe as an external tool.
Some downloads: TAKE CARE running EXECUTABLES from the web.
tidycvs-14-bin.zip: Release candidate, including HTML5 support.
tidycvs-14-src.zip: Full modified source, with MSVC build files.
tidydev-14-bin.zip: Development version, release candidate, with HTML5 support and using
the config option 'gnu-emacs true' will output error message in the MSVC form.
tidydev-14-src.zip: Full modified source, with MSVC build files.
Date | Link | Size | MD5 |
---|---|---|---|
2012/01/11 | tidycvs-14-bin.zip | 140,267 | 6b00582fa7a26fb321bc4e1df8f5b86e |
2012/01/11 | tidycvs-14-src.zip | 670,905 | b7189e688d4e0bf424cfee1ce408ea2a |
2012/01/11 | tidydev-14-bin.zip | 145,827 | ef24670a31cbc7d30f92aa0ddb9abdd3 |
2012/01/11 | tidydev-14-src.zip | 1,152,301 | b0c4e52f28c5b96535228196ecbf90e0 |
Older Versions:
2010-03-28:12: Added new option to my tidydev-12, namely -noeqwrap, or no-equal-wrap: yes. For a long time I have NOT like the fact that attributes can be 'wrapped' on the equal(=) sign, particularly href="something". While this seems no problem for browsers, it makes simple parsing a html file that much more difficult, and really did not 'look' right. This added option will change the pretty print output, and like if the output is xml, will no longer wrap on the equal sign...
2010-03-27:11: Due to a problem with 'lost' new-lines in the output, reverted to using src/pprint.c from CVS, 100%. So for the moment, I have to get used to what I feel is an 'extra' number of blank lines in the 'tidied' html ;=()
The table below contains the release and build dates of particular Windows binaries, and more
recently also the full source... In most cases, the EXE file in the zip is called tidy.exe, so
it is up to you to rename this if you want to use/try multiple versions.
The marker ??? denotes DEVELOPMENT versions, which have a number additional features, some
under test, compared to a standard CVS versions. It also has a slightly modified command
line interface, which includes an @input_txt, input file, with line separated commands. See
tidy_09.htm for more details.
As usual, take care with downloading and running executable files from the
web!
Make SURE you at least check the MD5 sum!
download | version | MD5 | msvc | build | size |
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tidydeve12.zip | ??? 26 March 2009 | 8bcf5512d05f3d4d61c2b470e0fdfb7e | MSVC8 | 2010/03/28 | 142,570 |
tidydev-12.zip | ??? 26 March 2009 | 61ff6882925453b9a19043dd9e4a8450 | Source | 2010/03/28 | 1,204,317 |
tidycvse10.zip | 26 March 2009 | 58f5360da8d7a1996481ea1c2890a391 | MSVC8 | 08/02/2010 | 137,070 |
tidycvs-10.zip | 26 March 2009 | a9bbb8e41d65137222c74989ee23d8da | Source | 15/03/2010 | 722,563 |
Older Versions | |||||
tidydeve11.zip | ??? 26 March 2009 | 104215c74c34a151455eb961fb7f8c3a | MSVC8 | 2010/03/27 | 142,449 |
tidydev-11.zip | ??? 26 March 2009 | 964ea90a857f9007d31fbf5941fd4f88 | Source | 2010/03/27 | 1,209,315 |
tidydeve09.zip | ??? 26 March 2009 | fc7355d96b6cdc67f9f9c0546ee150e2 | MSVC8 | 26/03/2009 | 142,421 |
tidydev-09.zip | ??? 26 March 2009 | c5cc25c3d776719f30df3d0b1564c47d | Source | 15/03/2010 * | 1,171,527 |
tidydeve08.zip | ?????? 7 Dec 2008 | 295ae62cad74d04543a4ed998061234a | MSVC8 | 23 Mar 2009 | 142,293 |
tidycvse08.zip | + 7 Dec 2008 | 0c402e763082d823ee8b92dad3c1a473 | MSVC8 | 19 Mar 2009 | 136,914 |
tidydeve07.zip | ??? 20 Jan 2009 | 97c618c9d8dca25ac1054097a86f397b | MSVC8 | 20 Jan 2009 | 142,183 |
tidycvse07.zip | 7 Dec 2008 | e61d68264b6d88513dfeede39cc0b73f | MSVC8 | 19 Jan 2009 | 136,895 |
tidycvse06.zip | 11 Aug 2008 | 4f6c010dea0611506ef78eceb2b18991 | MSVC8 | 10 Oct 2008 | |
tidydeve06.zip | ??? 11 Aug 2008 | 46874781d0edeb8d5ff3a77ee0421f39 | MSVC8 | 10 Oct 2008 | |
tidycvse05.zip | 18 Jun 2008 | 859ee72ee13ffeb5e493f074a9a5f60a | MSVC8 | 21 Jul 2008 | |
tidycvs04e04.zip | 22 Mar 2008 | 59be2875d983939e1243c22510f3c5da | MSVC8 | 16 Apr 2008 | |
tidydeve02.zip | ??? 6 Nov 2007 | dd0305d942cb6f63fa3c63a03ffea73b | MSVC8 | 9 Jan 2008 | |
tidydeve01.zip | ??? 15 Aug 2007 | cb8c9f5925cc3efc9f89fb8aa473ca7c | MSVC8 | 19 Aug 2007 | |
tidycvse01.zip | 15 Aug 2007 | 29a019b21f51bc93a34baf57e8645f71 | MSVC8 | 16 Aug 2007 | |
tidycvs01.zip | 2 Apr 2007 | 967bd495d7564f4243188b4f31c555fd | MSVC8 | 13 Apr 2007 | |
tidycvs.zip | 14 Feb 2006 | 752bbba09a5af2a9d96fbf0d9a944c69 | MSVC7 | 25 Feb 2006 | |
tidycvs6.zip | 12 Sep 2006 | b50c853e1b76d508dd4131bd62eb2759 | MSVC6 | 16 Sep 2006 | |
Another (usually older) list of downloads is here. |
Keys:
* - Although this is nearly a year later, it IS the source that built
the above executable. Just very SLOW in putting it together, and onto this page ;=))
??? - Development versions, which have a number additional features.
See tidy_09.htm for more details.
+ - Patched version, with 2683371.diff.txt patch, to fix issue http://tidy.sf.net/issue/2683371
??? - Patched version, with pprint01.diff.txt patch, to fix additional blank line output (in
some cases).
The downloaded ZIP files each contains a WIN32 binary executable, tidy.exe, thus you
just unzip it. Since Tidy is a command line tool, you must always open a 'Command Prompt' to
use it, and change to the FOLDER where you unzipped it. Then if you type :-
> tidy -h<enter>
at the command prompt, a list of the command line parameters will be given. Typing :-
> tidy -v<enter>
and it should show the above release version, as shown in the table.
I always RENAME the executable binary, in the zip files, to tidycvsNN.exe, if it was compiled from the CVS source, and where 'NN' is the number of the zip, or to tidydevNN.exe, for my developmental version ... you can also find other WIN32 binary downloads through the main Sourceforge Tidy site ...
And of course, to be able to use Tidy in every command prompt, you need to move or copy the EXE binary to a FOLDER in your PATH environment variable. In my case I have created a C:\MDOS folder where I keep all such executable, and used Control Panel -> System -> Advanced TAB -> [Environment Variables] to ADD this permanently to my PATH ...
And rather than always remember to type in the long list of 'configuration' parameters, I place them all in a file, tidycvs.cfg.txt is a sample of this, and run Tidy like :-
> tidycvsNN --config C:\MDOS\tidycvs.cfg.txt -o tempnew.htm name-of-file-to-tidy.htm
And even all that I place in a batch file, ti.bat, which is in my PATH, so I just type :-
> ti outfile.htm infile.htm
I like an easy life :=)).
Link table to current Tidy pages -
Link | Description | Date |
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Tidy_15 | Tidy Tag Table. | 2020-12-02 |
Tidy_14 | Line and Column Reporting. | 2007-08-18 |
Tidy_13 | Small patch for TIDY_STORE_ORIGINAL_TEXT compiler switch, and to improve column reporting, when there is a TAB in the file source line. | 2009-07-12 |
Tidy_12 | Another HTML::Tidy, by Andy Lester, from CPAN | 31/07/2008 |
Tidy_11 | First linux build, in ubuntu 7.10 - piece of cake ;=)) | 02/05/2008 |
Tidy_10 | Further fix for out-of-order inline elements - see http://tidy.sf.net/issue/1942407 | 16/04/2008 |
Tidy_09 | Tidy Development - a minor update of my development version. | 09/01/2008 |
Tidy_08 | Tidy COM Wrapper - WORK IN PROGRESS! | 26/10/2007 |
Tidy_07 | Building HTML::Tidy for Perl - WORK IN PROGRESS! | 21/09/2007 |
Tidy_06 | Building TidyATL, part of Tidy Wrapper ... | 20/09/2007 |
Tidy 05 | A problem of php 'creeping indenting' ;=)) | 19/08/2007 |
Tidy 04 | Recently cvs included memory mapped io, so ... | 19/08/2007 |
Tidy 02 | A personal Tidy fix, for mal-formed inline elements ... | 19/08/2007 |
Tidy 03 | An enhancement of the -alt-text <text> option ... | 19/08/2007 |
Tidy 01 | A version to preserve leading spaces in XML parsing... | 19/08/2007 |
Miscellaneous items: Some access question, and a test legend file ... a blank template
PS: This file is tidied using this tidyclean.cfg.txt configuration file ... enjoy ;=)) An older version, excluding the 'clean' - tidycvs.cfg.txt ...