HTML Tidy Configuration Options

Option Groups

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	-
anchor-as-name	Boolean	yes
assume-xml-procins	Boolean	no
bare	Boolean	no
clean	Boolean	no
coerce-endtags	Boolean	yes
css-prefix	String	-
decorate-inferred-ul	Boolean	no
doctype	DocType	auto
drop-empty-elements	Boolean	yes
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
gdoc	Boolean	no
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-emphasis	Boolean	yes
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
omit-optional-tags	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
skip-nested	Boolean	yes
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-info	Boolean	yes
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
indent-with-tabs	Boolean	no
markup	Boolean	yes
punctuation-wrap	Boolean	no
sort-attributes	enum	none
split	Boolean	no
tab-size	Integer	8
vertical-space	AutoBool	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	utf8
input-encoding	Encoding	utf8
language	String	-
newline	enum	Platform dependent
output-bom	AutoBool	auto
output-encoding	Encoding	utf8

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
add-xml-decl		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
See Also:	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
	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:	-
	This option specifies the default `alt=` text Tidy uses for `<img>` attributes. Use with care, as this feature suppresses further accessibility warnings.

anchor-as-name		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option controls the deletion or addition of the `name` attribute in elements where it can serve as anchor. If set to `yes` a `name` attribute, if not already existing, is added along an existing `id` attribute if the DTD allows it. If set to `no` any existing name attribute is removed if an`id` attribute exists or has been added.

assume-xml-procins		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	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
	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
	This option specifies if Tidy should perform cleaning of some legacy presentational tags (currently `<i>`, `<b>`, `<center>` when enclosed within appropriate inline tags, and `<font>`). If set to `yes` then legacy tags will be replaced with CSS `<style>` tags and structural markup as appropriate.

coerce-endtags		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should coerce a start tag into an end tag in cases where it looks like an end tag was probably intended; for example, given `<span>foo <b>bar<b> baz</span>` Tidy will output `<span>foo <b>bar</b> baz</span>`

css-prefix		Top
Type:	String
Default:	-
Example:	-
	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
	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:	html5, omit, auto, strict, transitional, user
	This option specifies the DOCTYPE declaration generated by Tidy. If set to `omit` the output won't contain a DOCTYPE declaration. Note this this also implies `numeric-entities` is set to `yes` If set to `html5` the DOCTYPE is set to `<!DOCTYPE html>`. 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 HTML4 or XHTML1 strict DTD. If set to `loose`, the DOCTYPE is set to the HTML4 or XHTML1 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. This option does not offer a validation of document conformance.

drop-empty-elements		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should discard empty elements.

drop-empty-paras		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	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
See Also:	clean
	Deprecated; do not use. This option is destructive to `<font>` tags, and it will be removed from future versions of Tidy. Use the `clean` option instead. If you do set this option despite the warning it will perform as `clean` except styles will be inline instead of put into a CSS class. `<font>` tags will be dropped completely and their styles will not be preserved. If both `clean` and this option are enabled, `<font>` tags will still be dropped completely, and other styles will be preserved in a CSS class instead of inline. See `clean` for more information.

drop-proprietary-attributes		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should strip out proprietary attributes, such as Microsoft data binding attributes.

enclose-block-text		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	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
	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
	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
	This option specifies if Tidy should replace backslash characters `\` in URLs with forward slashes `/`.

fix-bad-comments		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	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
	This option specifies if Tidy should check attribute values that carry URIs for illegal characters and if such are found, escape them as HTML4 recommends.

gdoc		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should enable specific behavior for cleaning up HTML exported from Google Docs.

hide-comments		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	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
	This option is an alias for `omit-optional-tags`.

indent-cdata		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	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
	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
See Also:	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
See Also:	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
	This option specifies how Tidy deals with whitespace characters within attribute values. If the value is `no` Tidy normalizes attribute values by replacing any newline or tab with a single space, and further by replacing any contiguous whitespace with a single space. To force Tidy to preserve the original, literal values of all attributes and ensure that whitespace within attribute values is passed through unchanged, set this option to `yes`.

logical-emphasis		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should replace any occurrence of `<i>` with `<em>` and any occurrence of `<b>` with `<strong>`. Any attributes are preserved unchanged. This option can be set independently of the `clean` option.

lower-literals		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	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
See Also:	clean, merge-spans
	This option can be used to modify the behavior of `clean` when set to `yes`. 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. 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-emphasis		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should merge nested `<b>` and `<i>` elements; for example, for the case `<b class="rtop-2">foo <b class="r2-2">bar</b> baz</b>`, Tidy will output `<b class="rtop-2">foo bar baz</b>`.

merge-spans		Top
Type:	AutoBool
Default:	auto
Example:	auto, y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
See Also:	clean, merge-divs
	This option can be used to modify the behavior of `clean` when set to `yes`. 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
	This option specifies if Tidy should allow numeric character references.

new-blocklevel-tags		Top
Type:	Tag names
Default:	-
Example:	tagX, tagY, ...
See Also:	new-empty-tags, new-inline-tags, new-pre-tags
	This option specifies new block-level tags. This option takes a space or comma separated list of tag names. Unless you declare new tags, Tidy will refuse to generate a tidied file if the input includes previously unknown tags. Note you can't change the content model for elements such as `<table>`, `<ul>`, `<ol>` and `<dl>`. This option is ignored in XML mode.

new-empty-tags		Top
Type:	Tag names
Default:	-
Example:	tagX, tagY, ...
See Also:	new-blocklevel-tags, new-inline-tags, new-pre-tags
	This option specifies new empty inline tags. This option takes a space or comma separated list of tag names. Unless you declare new tags, Tidy will refuse to generate a tidied file if the input includes previously unknown tags. Remember to also declare empty tags as either inline or blocklevel. This option is ignored in XML mode.

new-inline-tags		Top
Type:	Tag names
Default:	-
Example:	tagX, tagY, ...
See Also:	new-blocklevel-tags, new-empty-tags, new-pre-tags
	This option specifies new non-empty inline tags. This option takes a space or comma separated list of tag names. Unless you declare new tags, Tidy will refuse to generate a tidied file if the input includes previously unknown tags. This option is ignored in XML mode.

new-pre-tags		Top
Type:	Tag names
Default:	-
Example:	tagX, tagY, ...
See Also:	new-blocklevel-tags, new-empty-tags, new-inline-tags
	This option specifies new tags that are to be processed in exactly the same way as HTML's `<pre>` element. This option takes a space or comma separated list of tag names. Unless you declare new tags, Tidy will refuse to generate a tidied file if the input includes previously unknown tags. Note you cannot as yet add new CDATA elements. This option is ignored in XML mode.

numeric-entities		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
See Also:	doctype, preserve-entities
	This option specifies if Tidy should output entities other than the built-in HTML entities (`&`, `<`, `>`, and `"`) in the numeric rather than the named entity form. Only entities compatible with the DOCTYPE declaration generated are used. Entities that can be represented in the output encoding are translated correspondingly.

omit-optional-tags		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should omit optional start tags and end tags when generating output. Setting this option causes all tags for the `<html>`, `<head>`, and `<body>` elements to be omitted from output, as well as such end tags as `</p>`, `</li>`, `</dt>`, `</dd>`, `</option>`, `</tr>`, `</td>`, and `</th>`. This option is ignored for XML output.

output-html		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should generate pretty printed output, writing it as HTML.

output-xhtml		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should generate pretty printed output, writing it as extensible HTML. This option causes Tidy to set the DOCTYPE and default namespace as appropriate to XHTML, and will use the corrected value in output regardless of other sources. For XHTML, entities can be written as named or numeric entities according to the setting of `numeric-entities`. The original case of tags and attributes will be preserved, regardless of other options.

output-xml		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should pretty print output, writing it as well-formed XML. Any entities not defined in XML 1.0 will be written as numeric entities to allow them to be parsed by an XML parser. The original case of tags and attributes will be preserved, regardless of other options.

preserve-entities		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should preserve well-formed entities as found in the input.

quote-ampersand		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should output unadorned `&` characters as `&`.

quote-marks		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should output `"` characters as `"` as is preferred by some editing environments. The apostrophe character `'` is written out as `'` since many web browsers don't yet support `'`.

quote-nbsp		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should output non-breaking space characters as entities, rather than as the Unicode character value 160 (decimal).

repeated-attributes		Top
Type:	enum
Default:	keep-last
Example:	keep-first, keep-last
See Also:	join-classes, join-styles
	This option specifies if Tidy should keep the first or last attribute, if an attribute is repeated, e.g. has two `align` attributes.

replace-color		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should replace numeric values in color attributes with HTML/XHTML color names where defined, e.g. replace `#ffffff` with `white`.

show-body-only		Top
Type:	AutoBool
Default:	no
Example:	auto, y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should print only the contents of the body tag as an HTML fragment. If set to `auto`, this is performed only if the body tag has been inferred. Useful for incorporating existing whole pages as a portion of another page. This option has no effect if XML output is requested.

skip-nested		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies that Tidy should skip nested tags when parsing script and style data.

uppercase-attributes		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should output attribute names in upper case. The default is `no`, which results in lower case attribute names, except for XML input, where the original case is preserved.

uppercase-tags		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should output tag names in upper case. The default is `no` which results in lower case tag names, except for XML input where the original case is preserved.

word-2000		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should go to great pains to strip out all the surplus stuff Microsoft Word 2000 inserts when you save Word documents as "Web pages". It doesn't handle embedded images or VML. You should consider using Word's "Save As: Web Page, Filtered".


Diagnostics
accessibility-check		Top
Type:	enum
Default:	0 (Tidy Classic)
Example:	0 (Tidy Classic), 1 (Priority 1 Checks), 2 (Priority 2 Checks), 3 (Priority 3 Checks)
	This option specifies what level of accessibility checking, if any, that Tidy should perform. Level `0 (Tidy Classic)` is equivalent to Tidy Classic's accessibility checking. For more information on Tidy's accessibility checking, visit Tidy's Accessibility Page.

show-errors		Top
Type:	Integer
Default:	6
Example:	0, 1, 2, ...
	This option specifies the number Tidy uses to determine if further errors should be shown. If set to `0`, then no errors are shown.

show-info		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should display info-level messages.

show-warnings		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should suppress warnings. This can be useful when a few errors are hidden in a flurry of warnings.


Pretty Print
break-before-br		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should output a line break before each `<br>` element.

indent		Top
Type:	AutoBool
Default:	no
Example:	auto, y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
See Also:	indent-spaces
	This option specifies if Tidy should indent block-level tags. If set to `auto` Tidy will decide whether or not to indent the content of tags such as `<title>`, `<h1>`-`<h6>`, `<li>`, `<td>`, or `<p>` based on the content including a block-level element. Setting `indent` to `yes` can expose layout bugs in some browsers. Use the option `indent-spaces` to control the number of spaces or tabs output per level of indent, and `indent-with-tabs` to specify whether spaces or tabs are used.

indent-attributes		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should begin each attribute on a new line.

indent-spaces		Top
Type:	Integer
Default:	2
Example:	0, 1, 2, ...
See Also:	indent
	This option specifies the number of spaces or tabs that Tidy uses to indent content when `indent` is enabled. Note that the default value for this option is dependent upon the value of `indent-with-tabs` (see also).

indent-with-tabs		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should indent with tabs instead of spaces, assuming `indent` is `yes`. Set it to `yes` to indent using tabs instead of the default spaces. Use the option `indent-spaces` to control the number of tabs output per level of indent. Note that when `indent-with-tabs` is enabled the default value of `indent-spaces` is reset to `1`. Note `tab-size` controls converting input tabs to spaces. Set it to zero to retain input tabs.

markup		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should generate a pretty printed version of the markup. Note that Tidy won't generate a pretty printed version if it finds significant errors (see `force-output`).

punctuation-wrap		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should line wrap after some Unicode or Chinese punctuation characters.

sort-attributes		Top
Type:	enum
Default:	none
Example:	none, alpha
	This option specifies that Tidy should sort attributes within an element using the specified sort algorithm. If set to `alpha`, the algorithm is an ascending alphabetic sort.

split		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option has no function and is deprecated.

tab-size		Top
Type:	Integer
Default:	8
Example:	0, 1, 2, ...
	This option specifies the number of columns that Tidy uses between successive tab stops. It is used to map tabs to spaces when reading the input.

vertical-space		Top
Type:	AutoBool
Default:	no
Example:	auto, y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should add some extra empty lines for readability. The default is `no`. If set to `auto` Tidy will eliminate nearly all newline characters.

wrap		Top
Type:	Integer
Default:	68
Example:	0 (no wrapping), 1, 2, ...
	This option specifies the right margin Tidy uses for line wrapping. Tidy tries to wrap lines so that they do not exceed this length. Set `wrap` to `0`(zero) if you want to disable line wrapping.

wrap-asp		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should line wrap text contained within ASP pseudo elements, which look like: `<% ... %>`.

wrap-attributes		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
See Also:	wrap-script-literals, literal-attributes
	This option specifies if Tidy should line-wrap attribute values, meaning that if the value of an attribute causes a line to exceed the width specified by `wrap`, Tidy will add one or more line breaks to the value, causing it to be wrapped into multiple lines. Note that this option can be set independently of `wrap-script-literals`. By default Tidy replaces any newline or tab with a single space and replaces any sequences of whitespace with a single space. To force Tidy to preserve the original, literal values of all attributes, and ensure that whitespace characters within attribute values are passed through unchanged, set `literal-attributes` to `yes`.

wrap-jste		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should line wrap text contained within JSTE pseudo elements, which look like: `<# ... #>`.

wrap-php		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should line wrap text contained within PHP pseudo elements, which look like: `<?php ... ?>`.

wrap-script-literals		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
See Also:	wrap-attributes
	This option specifies if Tidy should line wrap string literals that appear in script attributes. Tidy wraps long script string literals by inserting a backslash character before the line break.

wrap-sections		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should line wrap text contained within `<![ ... ]>` section tags.


Character Encoding
ascii-chars		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
See Also:	clean
	Can be used to modify behavior of the `clean` option when set to `yes`. If set to `yes` when `clean`, `&emdash;`, `”`, and other named character entities are downgraded to their closest ASCII equivalents.

char-encoding		Top
Type:	Encoding
Default:	utf8
Example:	raw, ascii, latin0, latin1, utf8, iso2022, mac, win1252, ibm858, utf16le, utf16be, utf16, big5, shiftjis
See Also:	input-encoding, output-encoding
	This option specifies the character encoding Tidy uses for both the input and output. For `ascii` Tidy will accept Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) character values, but will use entities for all characters whose value >127. For `raw`, Tidy will output values above 127 without translating them into entities. For `latin1`, characters above 255 will be written as entities. For `utf8`, Tidy assumes that both input and output are encoded as UTF-8. You can use `iso2022` for files encoded using the ISO-2022 family of encodings e.g. ISO-2022-JP. For `mac` and `win1252`, Tidy will accept vendor specific character values, but will use entities for all characters whose value >127. For unsupported encodings, use an external utility to convert to and from UTF-8.

input-encoding		Top
Type:	Encoding
Default:	utf8
Example:	raw, ascii, latin0, latin1, utf8, iso2022, mac, win1252, ibm858, utf16le, utf16be, utf16, big5, shiftjis
See Also:	char-encoding
	This option specifies the character encoding Tidy uses for the input. See `char-encoding` for more info.

language		Top
Type:	String
Default:	-
Example:	-
	Currently not used, but this option specifies the language Tidy would use if it were properly localized. For example: `en`.

newline		Top
Type:	enum
Default:	Platform dependent
Example:	LF, CRLF, CR
	The default is appropriate to the current platform. Genrally CRLF on PC-DOS, Windows and OS/2; CR on Classic Mac OS; and LF everywhere else (Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix).

output-bom		Top
Type:	AutoBool
Default:	auto
Example:	auto, y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should write a Unicode Byte Order Mark character (BOM; also known as Zero Width No-Break Space; has value of U+FEFF) to the beginning of the output, and only applies to UTF-8 and UTF-16 output encodings. If set to `auto` this option causes Tidy to write a BOM to the output only if a BOM was present at the beginning of the input. A BOM is always written for XML/XHTML output using UTF-16 output encodings.

output-encoding		Top
Type:	Encoding
Default:	utf8
Example:	raw, ascii, latin0, latin1, utf8, iso2022, mac, win1252, ibm858, utf16le, utf16be, utf16, big5, shiftjis
See Also:	char-encoding
	This option specifies the character encoding Tidy uses for the output. Note that this may only be different from `input-encoding` for Latin encodings (`ascii`, `latin0`, `latin1`, `mac`, `win1252`, `ibm858`). See `char-encoding` for more information


Miscellaneous
error-file		Top
Type:	String
Default:	-
Example:	-
See Also:	output-file
	This option specifies the error file Tidy uses for errors and warnings. Normally errors and warnings are output to `stderr`.

force-output		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should produce output even if errors are encountered. Use this option with care; if Tidy reports an error, this means Tidy was not able to (or is not sure how to) fix the error, so the resulting output may not reflect your intention.

gnu-emacs		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should change the format for reporting errors and warnings to a format that is more easily parsed by GNU Emacs.

gnu-emacs-file		Top
Type:	String
Default:	-
Example:	-
	Used internally.

keep-time		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should keep the original modification time of files that Tidy modifies in place. Setting the option to `yes` allows you to tidy files without changing the file modification date, which may be useful with certain tools that use the modification date for things such as automatic server deployment. Note this feature is not supported on some platforms.

output-file		Top
Type:	String
Default:	-
Example:	-
See Also:	error-file
	This option specifies the output file Tidy uses for markup. Normally markup is written to `stdout`.

quiet		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should output the summary of the numbers of errors and warnings, or the welcome or informational messages.

slide-style		Top
Type:	String
Default:	-
Example:	-
	This option has no function and is deprecated.

tidy-mark		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	yes
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should add a `meta` element to the document head to indicate that the document has been tidied. Tidy won't add a meta element if one is already present.

write-back		Top
Type:	Boolean
Default:	no
Example:	y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0
	This option specifies if Tidy should write back the tidied markup to the same file it read from. You are advised to keep copies of important files before tidying them, as on rare occasions the result may not be what you expect.

Option Groups

HTML, XHTML, XML

add-xml-decl

add-xml-space

alt-text

anchor-as-name

assume-xml-procins

bare

clean

coerce-endtags

css-prefix

decorate-inferred-ul

doctype

drop-empty-elements

drop-empty-paras

drop-font-tags

drop-proprietary-attributes

enclose-block-text

enclose-text

escape-cdata

fix-backslash

fix-bad-comments

fix-uri

gdoc

hide-comments

hide-endtags

indent-cdata

input-xml

join-classes

join-styles

literal-attributes

logical-emphasis

lower-literals

merge-divs

merge-emphasis

merge-spans

ncr

new-blocklevel-tags

new-empty-tags

new-inline-tags

new-pre-tags

numeric-entities

omit-optional-tags

output-html

output-xhtml

output-xml

preserve-entities

quote-ampersand

quote-marks

quote-nbsp

repeated-attributes

replace-color

show-body-only

skip-nested

uppercase-attributes

uppercase-tags

word-2000

Diagnostics

accessibility-check

show-errors

show-info

show-warnings

Pretty Print

break-before-br

indent

indent-attributes

indent-spaces

indent-with-tabs

markup

punctuation-wrap

sort-attributes

split

tab-size

vertical-space

wrap

wrap-asp

wrap-attributes

wrap-jste

wrap-php

wrap-script-literals