HTML Tidy  5.0.0
The HTACG Tidy HTML Project
tidy command

Running the tidy command


tidy [options...] [file...] [options...] [file...]
Utility to clean up and pretty print HTML/XHTML/XML.

This is modern HTML Tidy version 5.0.0.

Options for HTML Tidy for Mac OS X:

File manipulation
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 -output , -o  write output to the specified                       
                                                                         
 -config       set configuration options from the specified        
 -file , -f    write errors and warnings to the specified          
                                                                         
 -modify, -m         modify the original input files                           

Processing directives
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 -indent, -i         indent element content                                    
 -wrap , -w  wrap text at the specified . 0 is assumed if      
              is missing. When this option is omitted, the     
                     default of the configuration option "wrap" applies.       
 -upper, -u          force tags to upper case                                  
 -clean, -c          replace FONT, NOBR and CENTER tags by CSS                 
 -bare, -b           strip out smart quotes and em dashes, etc.                
 -gdoc, -g           produce clean version of html exported by google docs     
 -numeric, -n        output numeric rather than named entities                 
 -errors, -e         show only errors and warnings                             
 -quiet, -q          suppress nonessential output                              
 -omit               omit optional start tags and end tags                     
 -xml                specify the input is well formed XML                      
 -asxml, -asxhtml    convert HTML to well formed XHTML                         
 -ashtml             force XHTML to well formed HTML                           
 -access      do additional accessibility checks ( = 0, 1, 2, 3).
                     0 is assumed if  is missing.                       

Character encodings
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 -raw                output values above 127 without conversion to entities    
 -ascii              use ISO-8859-1 for input, US-ASCII for output             
 -latin0             use ISO-8859-15 for input, US-ASCII for output            
 -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     set the two-letter language code  (for future use)  

Miscellaneous
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 -version, -v        show the version of Tidy                                  
 -help, -h, -?       list the command line options                             
 -xml-help           list the command line options in XML format               
 -help-config        list all configuration options                            
 -xml-config         list all configuration options in XML format              
 -show-config        list the current configuration settings                   

Use --optionX valueX for any configuration option "optionX" with argument
"valueX". For a list of the configuration options, use "-help-config" or refer
to the man page.

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 more information about HTML Tidy, see
  http://www.html-tidy.org/

For more information on HTML, see the following:

  HTML: Edition for Web Authors (the latest HTML specification)
  http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-author-view

  HTML: The Markup Language (an HTML language reference)
  http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/

File bug reports at https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/
or send questions and comments to public-htacg@w3.org.

Validate your HTML documents using the W3C Nu Markup Validator:

  http://validator.w3.org/nu/