History HTML Tidy was created by the own back in the dawn of the Internet age. His original Internet page is still available and gives a sense of the early history:.

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Satisfied with his work, Dave passed the torch to a dedicated group of maintainers at where the important tasks of turning Tidy into a C library and keeping up with developing standards was performed. W3C members took a renewed interest in Tidy in 2011 and forked the project to (now redirects to new maintainers), where it featured compatibility with HTML5 via a from one of the SourceForge key members. In 2015 a group of concerned developers, users, and software integrators formed with the goal of revitalizing Tidy, which had fallen into a non-maintained state.

As a W3C Community Group, HTACG was deemed worthy by the W3C, and W3C passed ownership of their project to HTACG, where it is currently being developed and prepped for a new, stable, and modern release. HTACG is also working diligently with the SourceForge maintainers in an effort to harmonize HTML Tidy into a single, stable, solid release once again. Get Tidy You may already have Tidy on your computer! Many operating systems ship with the tidy command pre-installed. Chances are good, though, that what you have is so outdated that it doesn’t even recognize HTML5. Grab a binary HTACG makes available binaries for several platforms available.

If there isn’t one for your particular operating system then let us know. In the meantime there are a few more options. Build from source Building Tidy from source is easier than ever thanks to the efforts of our developers in adopting. Tidy’s source code is available on its. Install from a package manager Mac OS X •: fink install tidy •: brew install tidy-html5 •: sudo port install tidy Windows Coming soon! Linux •: sudo apt install tidy. Software using HTML Tidy The HTML Tidy library, libtidy, is used and incorporated into many applications and projects.

It offers an extensive API to read in and parse html from a file or buffer into a DOM like node tree, has cleaning and diagnostic services, ability to iterate through this node tree, interogating attributes, child nodes, and a pretty print output. This is a list of just a few applications and projects. • is a portable line editor like ed and a browser like lynx, an email client, and much more, and is the preferred tool of a large community of visually impaired developers and users. • is a libtidy based DSO module for Apache 2.0 that parses, cleans up, and pretty-prints the web server (X)HTML output. • provides server-side JavaScript bindings for libtidy. It aims to provide not only a high-level interface to a complete tidy run, but also offers methods which closely model the libtidy interface. • is a set of sample applications that exercise various aspects of the libtidy API.

And always looking for more samples. It also includes a CMake module, to be able to find installed Tidy headers and library for the compile link.

• is a powerful editor, and several people offer a plugin that uses libtidy to do cleaning, indenting, etc. Some version incompatibilites have been noted. • is a free, full fledged text editor for macOS that encourages you to tidy your documents live, during editing.

There are also applications that use the tidy console executable externally to add html cleaning. • is a commercial application for web professionals, webmasters, etc, anyone who wants to improve their web site, or money back. It includes an interface to the tidy exe.

Note that items appearing here aren’t endorsements by HTACG or the HTML Tidy Project team, but we do exercise some editorial discretion about what appears here. If you think there’s something we’re missing that uses modern Tidy or libtidy, please feel free to issue a github pull request against this, and we will be sure to add it. You will want to edit.