Generated automatically with HTML Tidy released on 19 September 2007.
HTML, XHTML, XML
Diagnostics
Pretty Print
Character Encoding
Miscellaneous
| HTML, XHTML, XML Options | Top | |
| Option | Type | Default |
| add-xml-decl | Boolean | no |
| add-xml-space | Boolean | no |
| alt-text | String | - |
| assume-xml-procins | Boolean | no |
| bare | Boolean | no |
| clean | Boolean | no |
| css-prefix | String | - |
| decorate-inferred-ul | Boolean | no |
| doctype | DocType | auto |
| drop-empty-paras | Boolean | yes |
| drop-font-tags | Boolean | no |
| drop-proprietary-attributes | Boolean | no |
| enclose-block-text | Boolean | no |
| enclose-text | Boolean | no |
| escape-cdata | Boolean | no |
| fix-backslash | Boolean | yes |
| fix-bad-comments | Boolean | yes |
| fix-uri | Boolean | yes |
| hide-comments | Boolean | no |
| hide-endtags | Boolean | no |
| indent-cdata | Boolean | no |
| input-xml | Boolean | no |
| join-classes | Boolean | no |
| join-styles | Boolean | yes |
| literal-attributes | Boolean | no |
| logical-emphasis | Boolean | no |
| lower-literals | Boolean | yes |
| merge-divs | AutoBool | auto |
| merge-spans | AutoBool | auto |
| ncr | Boolean | yes |
| new-blocklevel-tags | Tag names | - |
| new-empty-tags | Tag names | - |
| new-inline-tags | Tag names | - |
| new-pre-tags | Tag names | - |
| numeric-entities | Boolean | no |
| output-html | Boolean | no |
| output-xhtml | Boolean | no |
| output-xml | Boolean | no |
| preserve-entities | Boolean | no |
| quote-ampersand | Boolean | yes |
| quote-marks | Boolean | no |
| quote-nbsp | Boolean | yes |
| repeated-attributes | enum | keep-last |
| replace-color | Boolean | no |
| show-body-only | AutoBool | no |
| uppercase-attributes | Boolean | no |
| uppercase-tags | Boolean | no |
| word-2000 | Boolean | no |
| Diagnostics Options | Top | |
| Option | Type | Default |
| accessibility-check | enum | 0 (Tidy Classic) |
| show-errors | Integer | 6 |
| show-warnings | Boolean | yes |
| Pretty Print Options | Top | |
| Option | Type | Default |
| break-before-br | Boolean | no |
| indent | AutoBool | no |
| indent-attributes | Boolean | no |
| indent-spaces | Integer | 2 |
| markup | Boolean | yes |
| punctuation-wrap | Boolean | no |
| sort-attributes | enum | none |
| split | Boolean | no |
| tab-size | Integer | 8 |
| vertical-space | Boolean | no |
| wrap | Integer | 68 |
| wrap-asp | Boolean | yes |
| wrap-attributes | Boolean | no |
| wrap-jste | Boolean | yes |
| wrap-php | Boolean | yes |
| wrap-script-literals | Boolean | no |
| wrap-sections | Boolean | yes |
| Character Encoding Options | Top | |
| Option | Type | Default |
| ascii-chars | Boolean | no |
| char-encoding | Encoding | ascii |
| input-encoding | Encoding | latin1 |
| language | String | - |
| newline | enum | Platform dependent |
| output-bom | AutoBool | auto |
| output-encoding | Encoding | ascii |
| Miscellaneous Options | Top | |
| Option | Type | Default |
| error-file | String | - |
| force-output | Boolean | no |
| gnu-emacs | Boolean | no |
| gnu-emacs-file | String | - |
| keep-time | Boolean | no |
| output-file | String | - |
| quiet | Boolean | no |
| slide-style | String | - |
| tidy-mark | Boolean | yes |
| write-back | Boolean | no |
| HTML, XHTML, XML Options Reference | |
| add-xml-decl | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
char-encoding
output-encoding |
| This option specifies if Tidy should add the XML declaration when outputting XML or XHTML. Note that if the input already includes an <?xml ... ?> declaration then this option will be ignored. If the encoding for the output is different from "ascii", one of the utf encodings or "raw", the declaration is always added as required by the XML standard. | |
| add-xml-space | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should add xml:space="preserve" to elements such as <PRE>, <STYLE> and <SCRIPT> when generating XML. This is needed if the whitespace in such elements is to be parsed appropriately without having access to the DTD. | |
| alt-text | Top |
| Type: String Default: - Example: - |
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| This option specifies the default "alt=" text Tidy uses for <IMG> attributes. This feature is dangerous as it suppresses further accessibility warnings. You are responsible for making your documents accessible to people who can not see the images! | |
| assume-xml-procins | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should change the parsing of processing instructions to require ?> as the terminator rather than >. This option is automatically set if the input is in XML. | |
| bare | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should strip Microsoft specific HTML from Word 2000 documents, and output spaces rather than non-breaking spaces where they exist in the input. | |
| clean | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
drop-font-tags |
| This option specifies if Tidy should strip out surplus presentational tags and attributes replacing them by style rules and structural markup as appropriate. It works well on the HTML saved by Microsoft Office products. | |
| css-prefix | Top |
| Type: String Default: - Example: - |
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| This option specifies the prefix that Tidy uses for styles rules. By default, "c" will be used. | |
| decorate-inferred-ul | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should decorate inferred UL elements with some CSS markup to avoid indentation to the right. | |
| doctype | Top |
| Type: DocType Default: auto Example: omit, auto, strict, transitional, user |
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| This option specifies the DOCTYPE declaration generated by Tidy. If set to "omit" the output won't contain a DOCTYPE declaration. If set to "auto" (the default) Tidy will use an educated guess based upon the contents of the document. If set to "strict", Tidy will set the DOCTYPE to the strict DTD. If set to "loose", the DOCTYPE is set to the loose (transitional) DTD. Alternatively, you can supply a string for the formal public identifier (FPI). For example: doctype: "-//ACME//DTD HTML 3.14159//EN" If you specify the FPI for an XHTML document, Tidy will set the system identifier to an empty string. For an HTML document, Tidy adds a system identifier only if one was already present in order to preserve the processing mode of some browsers. Tidy leaves the DOCTYPE for generic XML documents unchanged. --doctype omit implies --numeric-entities yes. This option does not offer a validation of the document conformance. |
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| drop-empty-paras | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: yes Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should discard empty paragraphs. | |
| drop-font-tags | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
clean |
| This option specifies if Tidy should discard <FONT> and <CENTER> tags without creating the corresponding style rules. This option can be set independently of the clean option. | |
| drop-proprietary-attributes | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should strip out proprietary attributes, such as MS data binding attributes. | |
| enclose-block-text | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should insert a <P> element to enclose any text it finds in any element that allows mixed content for HTML transitional but not HTML strict. | |
| enclose-text | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should enclose any text it finds in the body element within a <P> element. This is useful when you want to take existing HTML and use it with a style sheet. | |
| escape-cdata | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should convert <![CDATA[]]> sections to normal text. | |
| fix-backslash | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: yes Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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This option specifies if Tidy should replace backslash characters "\" in URLs by forward slashes "/". |
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| fix-bad-comments | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: yes Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should replace unexpected hyphens with "=" characters when it comes across adjacent hyphens. The default is yes. This option is provided for users of Cold Fusion which uses the comment syntax: <!--- ---> | |
| fix-uri | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: yes Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should check attribute values that carry URIs for illegal characters and if such are found, escape them as HTML 4 recommends. | |
| hide-comments | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should print out comments. | |
| hide-endtags | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should omit optional end-tags when generating the pretty printed markup. This option is ignored if you are outputting to XML. | |
| indent-cdata | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should indent <![CDATA[]]> sections. | |
| input-xml | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should use the XML parser rather than the error correcting HTML parser. | |
| join-classes | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
join-styles
repeated-attributes |
| This option specifies if Tidy should combine class names to generate a single new class name, if multiple class assignments are detected on an element. | |
| join-styles | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: yes Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
join-classes
repeated-attributes |
| This option specifies if Tidy should combine styles to generate a single new style, if multiple style values are detected on an element. | |
| literal-attributes | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should ensure that whitespace characters within attribute values are passed through unchanged. | |
| logical-emphasis | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: no Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should replace any occurrence of <I> by <EM> and any occurrence of <B> by <STRONG>. In both cases, the attributes are preserved unchanged. This option can be set independently of the clean and drop-font-tags options. | |
| lower-literals | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: yes Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should convert the value of an attribute that takes a list of predefined values to lower case. This is required for XHTML documents. | |
| merge-divs | Top |
| Type: AutoBool Default: auto Example: auto, y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
clean
merge-spans |
| Can be used to modify behavior of -c (--clean yes) option. This option specifies if Tidy should merge nested <div> such as "<div><div>...</div></div>". If set to "auto", the attributes of the inner <div> are moved to the outer one. As well, nested <div> with ID attributes are not merged. If set to "yes", the attributes of the inner <div> are discarded with the exception of "class" and "style". | |
| merge-spans | Top |
| Type: AutoBool Default: auto Example: auto, y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
clean
merge-divs |
| Can be used to modify behavior of -c (--clean yes) option. This option specifies if Tidy should merge nested <span> such as "<span><span>...</span></span>". The algorithm is identical to the one used by --merge-divs. | |
| ncr | Top |
| Type: Boolean Default: yes Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0 |
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| This option specifies if Tidy should allow numeric character references. | |