First of all, I searched the forum and got this...
The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: html tidy.
...not much help there.
Anyway, is there a way to have HTML Tidy break at a tag instead of in the tag?
EXAMPLE:
Wrap set at 80 (any other setting just changes which part wraps but it's still incorrect)
Current break:
<a href="mailto:info@shakycoastaviation.com"><font size="4" color=
"#00FF00"><strong>Email</strong></font></a> | <a href=
"Aircraft/index.htm"><font size="4" color=
"#00FF00"><strong>Projects</strong></font></a> | <a href=
"Products.htm"><font size="4" color=
"#00FF00"><strong>Products</strong></font></a> | <a href=
"AboutUs.htm"><font size="4" color="#00FF00"><strong>About
Us</strong></font></a>
How I want it to look:
<a href="mailto:info@shakycoastaviation.com">
<font size="4" color="#00FF00"><strong>Email</strong></font></a> |
<a href="Aircraft/index.htm">
<font size="4" color="#00FF00"><strong>Projects</strong></font></a> |
<a href="Products.htm">
<font size="4" color="#00FF00"><strong>Products</strong></font></a> |
<a href="AboutUs.htm">
<font size="4" color="#00FF00"><strong>About Us</strong></font></a>
BTW, it's not my code so please don't criticize. I know it's crap. LOL
Thanks for the help,
B.A.T.Man
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Re: HTML Tidy
Hello,
I checked the HTML Tidy quick-ref page:
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html
I didn't see any wrap options that will do what you want (look at the options beginning with "wrap").
I checked the HTML Tidy quick-ref page:
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html
I didn't see any wrap options that will do what you want (look at the options beginning with "wrap").
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Re: HTML Tidy
Well, I went through the settings and played with all of those. Nothing worked so I guess I'm stuck doing it manually. I was hoping someone knew of a back-end that will make it work.
Thanks for the reply!
Thanks for the reply!
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Re: HTML Tidy
Like you, I have on occasion needed to process other people's markup.
On big jobs I have found Tidy able to do a lot of the work, but it has limits. It used to conflate different settings into one. Making it impossible to make it do exactly what you want. (Last time I checked it still worked like that.)
After a rough clean up with tidy I found that a little work with regular expressions on multiple files can often just about finish the job. It pays to test your regular expressions first and save them in a library for re-use.
For a small job, page by page editing, maybe by hand, can be most productive.
When doing a big job, setting up a CSE batch increases productivity.
On big jobs I have found Tidy able to do a lot of the work, but it has limits. It used to conflate different settings into one. Making it impossible to make it do exactly what you want. (Last time I checked it still worked like that.)
After a rough clean up with tidy I found that a little work with regular expressions on multiple files can often just about finish the job. It pays to test your regular expressions first and save them in a library for re-use.
For a small job, page by page editing, maybe by hand, can be most productive.
When doing a big job, setting up a CSE batch increases productivity.
Re: HTML Tidy
It's a little old and not so maintained. Also huge with lots of options. It's nice for transforming a big mess into something resembling (x)html so you can finish the job with sed / some editor.
If you happen to be a Vim user have a look at :h makeprg and :h equalprg for filtering a buffer through tidy. :%! can be handy too.
If you happen to be a Vim user have a look at :h makeprg and :h equalprg for filtering a buffer through tidy. :%! can be handy too.