HTML Tidy - Utility to clean up and pretty print HTML/XHTML/XML

tidy [option...] [file...] [option...] [file...]

Utility to clean up and pretty print HTML/XHTML/XML see http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

Options for HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 released on 1st January 2003:

File manipulation ----------------- -out or -o <file> specify the output markup file

-config <file>

set configuration options from the specified <file>

-f

<file> write errors to the specified <file>

-modify or -m

modify the original input files

Processing directives ---------------------

-indent

or -i indent element content

-wrap <column>

wrap text at the specified <column> (default is 68)

-upper

or -u force tags to upper case (default is lower case)

-clean

or -c replace FONT, NOBR and CENTER tags by CSS

-bare

or -b strip out smart quotes and em dashes, etc.

-numeric or -n

output numeric rather than named entities

-errors

or -e only show errors

-quiet

or -q suppress nonessential output

-omit

omit optional end tags

-xml

specify the input is well formed XML

-asxml

convert HTML to well formed XHTML

-asxhtml

convert HTML to well formed XHTML

-ashtml

force XHTML to well formed HTML

-access <level>

do additional accessibility checks (<level> = 1, 2, 3)

Character encodings -------------------

-raw

output values above 127 without conversion to entities

-ascii

use US-ASCII for output, ISO-8859-1 for input

-latin0

use US-ASCII for output, ISO-8859-1 for input

-latin1

use ISO-8859-1 for both input and output

-iso2022

use ISO-2022 for both input and output

-utf8

use UTF-8 for both input and output

-mac

use MacRoman for input, US-ASCII for output

-win1252

use Windows-1252 for input, US-ASCII for output

-ibm858

use IBM-858 (CP850+Euro) for input, US-ASCII for output

-utf16le

use UTF-16LE for both input and output

-utf16be

use UTF-16BE for both input and output

-utf16

use UTF-16 for both input and output

-big5

use Big5 for both input and output

-shiftjis

use Shift_JIS for both input and output

-language <lang>

set the two-letter language code <lang> (for future use)

Miscellaneous -------------

-version

or -v show the version of Tidy

-help, -h or -?

list the command line options

-help-config

list all configuration options

-show-config

list the current configuration settings

Use --blah blarg for any configuration option "blah" with argument "blarg"

Input/Output default to stdin/stdout respectively Single letter options apart from -f may be combined as in: tidy -f errs.txt -imu foo.html For further info on HTML see http://www.w3.org/MarkUp

HTML_TIDY

Name of the default configuration file. This should be an absolute path, since you will probably invoke tidy from different directories. The value of HTML_TIDY will be parsed after the compiled-in default (/etc/tidy.conf), but before any of the files specified using -config. The value of HTML_TIDY overrides $HOME/.tidyrc

0

All input files were processed successfully.

1

There were warnings.

2

There were errors.

/etc/tidy.conf - global configuration file

$HOME/.tidyrc - user configuration file

Tidy HTML documentation in tidy-doc package.