HTML

HTML/XHTML/XML

Add xml decl

Yes

axd

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<note>
  <to>George</to>
  <from>John</from>
</note>

<note>
  <to>George</to>
  <from>John</from>
</note>

Add xml space

Yes

axs

// with Output xml

<pre xml:space="preserve">
George
John
George      John
</pre>

<pre>
George
John
George      John
</pre>

Alt text

Text

*Do not include '-' character

at

Alt text=Missing

<img src="/i/eg_tulip.jpg" />
==>
<img src="/i/eg_tulip.jpg" alt="Missing" />

Anchor as name

Yes
aan
```
<a id="tips" name="tips">John</a>
```
No
```
<a id="tips">John</a>
```

Assume xml procins

Yes

axp

Change the parsing of processing instructions to require ?> as the terminator rather than >

No change the parsing of processing instructions to require ?> as the terminator rather than >

Bare

Yes

b

Strip Microsoft specific HTML from Word 2000 documents

No strip Microsoft specific HTML from Word 2000 documents

Clean

Yes

c

Strip out surplus presentational tags and attributes replacing them by style rules and structural markup as appropriate

No strip out surplus presentational tags and attributes replacing them by style rules and structural markup as appropriate

Coerce endtags

Yes
cet
```
foo bar baz
```
No
```
foo bar baz
```

CSS-prefix

Text

*Do not include '-' character

cp

Specifies the prefix that Tidy uses for styles rules

Decorate inferred ul

Yes

diu

Specifies if Tidy should decorate inferred UL elements with some CSS markup to avoid indentation to the right

No specifies if Tidy should decorate inferred UL elements with some CSS markup to avoid indentation to the right

Doctype

Omit

d0

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

Auto

d1

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

Strict

d2

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

Transitional

d3

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

User
d4
```
use Doctype User
```
Html5
d5
```
<!DOCTYPE html>
```

Doctype User

Text
*Do not include '-' character
du
```
"-//ACME//DTD HTML 3.14159//EN"
```

Drop empty elements

Yes
dee
```
foo baz
```
No
```
foo baz
```

Drop empty paras

Yes
dep
```
This is some text
```
No
```
This is some text

```

Drop font tags

Yes

dft

This is some text!This is some text!<br />

<font size="3" color="red">This is some text!</font>
<center>This is some text!</center>

Drop proprietary atts

Yes
dpa
```
<form>
 <input type="text">
</form>
```

<form>
  <input type="text" hidefocus="on">
</form>

Enclose block text

Yes
ebt
```
This is some text!
```
No
```
This is some text!
```

Enclose text

Yes
et
```
This is some text!
```
No
```
This is some text!
```

Escape cdata

Yes
ec
```
<note>This is some text</note>
```

<note>
  <![CDATA[This is some text]]>
</note>

Fix backslash

Yes
fb
```
<img src="/i/eg_tulip.jpg" />
```
No
```
<img src="\i\eg_tulip.jpg" />
```

Fix bad comments

Yes

fbc

Replace unexpected hyphens with "=" characters when it comes across adjacent hyphens

No replace unexpected hyphens with "=" characters when it comes across adjacent hyphens

Fix uri

Yes
fu
```
<img src="/i/eg%20tulip.jpg" />
```
No
```
<img src="/i/eg tulip.jpg" />
```

Gdoc

Yes

gdc

This option specifies if Tidy should enable specific behavior for cleaning up HTML exported from Google Docs.

Hide comments

Yes
hc
```
<note>abc</note>
```

<!-- This is some text -->
<note>abc</note>

Hide endtags

Yes

he

Omit optional end-tags when generating the pretty printed markup

No omit optional end-tags when generating the pretty printed markup

Indent cdata

Yes
ic
```
Indent <![CDATA[]]> sections
```
No
```
No indent <![CDATA[]]> sections
```

Input xml

Yes
ix
```
Use the XML parser
```
No
```
No use the XML parser
```

Join classes

Yes

jc

<h1 class="intro important">Header 1</h1>

<h1 class="intro" class="important">Header 1</h1>

Join styles

Yes

js

<h1 style="color:red; text-align:center;">This is a header</h1>

<h1 style="color:red;" style="text-align:center;">This is a header</h1>

Literal attributes

Yes

la

<h1 style="color:red;    text-align:center;">This is a header</h1>

<h1 style="color:red; text-align:center;">This is a header</h1>

Logical emphasis

Yes

le

<strong>This is some text</strong>
<em>This is some text</em>

<b>This is some text</b>
<i>This is some text</i>

Lower literals

Yes
ll
```
This is some text
```
No
```
This is some text
```

Merge divs

Auto
md0
```
<div>
 This is some text
</div>
```
Yes
md1
```
<div>
 This is some text
</div>
```

md2

<div>
  <div>
    This is some text
  </div>
</div>

Merge emphasis

Yes
me
```
foo bar baz.
```

<b class="rtop-2">foo <b class="r2-2">bar</b> baz</b>

Merge spans

Auto
ms0
```

 This is some text

```
Yes
ms1
```

 This is some text

```

ms2

<span>
  <span>
    This is some text
  </span>
</span>

NCR

Yes
n
```
Allow numeric character references
```
No
```
No allow numeric character references
```

New blocklevel tags

Text

*Do not include '-' character

nbt

// ql we

<ql>
  <we>This is some text</we>
</ql>

New empty tags

Text
*Do not include '-' character
net
```
// ql

<ql />
```

New inline tags

Text
*Do not include '-' character
nit
```
// ql

<ql></ql>
```

New pre tags

Text
*Do not include '-' character
npt
```
// ql

<ql>
This is some text
</ql>
```

Numeric entities

Yes
ne
```
<q>&#192;</q>
```
No
```
<q>&Agrave;</q>
```

Omit optional tags

Yes

oot

This option specifies if Tidy should omit optional start tags and end tags when generating output.

Output html

Yes

oh

Generate pretty printed output, writing it as HTML

Output xhtml

Yes

ox

Generate pretty printed output, writing it as extensible HTML

Output xml

Yes

oxm

Pretty print output, writing it as well-formed XML

Preserve entities

Yes
pe
```
<q>&Agrave;</q>
```
No
```
// with Numeric entities

<q>&#192;</q>
```

Quote ampersand

Yes
qa
```
<q>&amp;</q>
```
No
```
<q>&</q>
```

Quote marks

Yes
qm
```
<q>&#39;&#39;""</q>
```
No
```
<q>''""</q>
```

Quote nbsp

Yes
qn
```
&nbsp;
```
No
```
 
```

Repeated attributes

Keep first

ra0

<h1 style="color:red;" style="color:blue;">This is a header</h1>
=>
<h1 style="color:red;">This is a header</h1>

Keep last

ra1

<h1 style="color:red;" style="color:blue;">This is a header</h1>
=>
<h1 style="color:blue;">This is a header</h1>

Replace color

Yes

rc

<font color="white">This is some text!</font>

<font color="#FFFFFF">This is some text!</font>

Show body only

Auto

sbo0

// this is performed only if the body tag has been inferred

<p>This is some text!</p>

Yes
sbo1
```
This is some text!
```

sbo2

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <title></title>
</head>

<body>
  <p>This is some text!</p>
</body>
</html>

Skip nested

Yes

sn

This option specifies that Tidy should skip nested tags when parsing script and style data.

Strict tags attributes

Yes

sta

This options ensures that tags and attributes are applicable for the version of HTML that Tidy outputs.

Uppercase attributes

Yes

ua

<p STYLE="color:red">This is a paragraph.</p>

<p style="color:red">This is a paragraph.</p>

Uppercase tags

Yes

ut

<P style="color:red">This is a paragraph.</P>

<p style="color:red">This is a paragraph.</p>

Word 2000

Yes

wo

Go to great pains to strip out all the surplus stuff Microsoft Word 2000 inserts when you save Word documents as "Web pages"

Pretty Print

Break before br

Yes
bbb
```
123
 
123
 
```
No
```
123 
123 
```

Escape scripts

Yes

es

This option causes items that look like closing tags, like </g to be escaped to <\/g. Set this option to 'no' if you do not want this.

Indent

Auto

i0

<ol>
  <li>Coffee</li>

  <li>Tea</li>

  <li>Milk</li>
</ol>

Yes

i1

<ol>
  <li>Coffee
  </li>
  <li>Tea
  </li>
  <li>Milk
  </li>
</ol>

i2

<ol>
<li>Coffee</li>
<li>Tea</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ol>

Indent attributes

Yes

ia

<font size="3"
      color="red">This is some text!</font>

<font size="3" color="red">This is some text!</font>

Indent spaces

Range : 0-100

is

//Indent spaces 3
<ol>
   <li>Coffee</li>
</ol>

//Indent spaces 2
<ol>
  <li>Coffee</li>
</ol>

Indent with tabs

Yes
tb
```
<ol>
--->---><li>Coffee</li>
</ol>
```
No
```
<ol>
**<li>Coffee</li>
</ol>
```

Markup

Yes

m

Generate a pretty printed version of the markup

Punctuation wrap

Yes

pw

Line wrap after some Unicode or Chinese punctuation characters

No line wrap after some Unicode or Chinese punctuation characters

Sort attributes

None

sa0

<font size="3" color="red">This is some text!</font>

Alpha

sa1

<font color="red" size="3">This is some text!</font>

Tab size

Range : 0-100

ts

Specifies the number of columns that Tidy uses between successive tab stops

Vertical space

Yes

vs

<p>This is some text</p>


<p>This is some text</p>

<p>This is some text</p>

<p>This is some text</p>

Wrap

Range : 0-100

w

//Wrap 10

<p>This
is some
text</p>

//Wrap 0
<p>This is some text</p>

Wrap asp

Yes

wa

Line wrap text contained within ASP pseudo elements, which look like: <% ... %>

No line wrap text contained within ASP pseudo elements, which look like: <% ... %>

Wrap attributes

Yes

wat

Line wrap attribute values, for easier editing

No line wrap attribute values, for easier editing

Wrap jste

Yes

wj

Line wrap text contained within JSTE pseudo elements, which look like: <# ... #>

No line wrap text contained within JSTE pseudo elements, which look like: <# ... #>

Wrap php

Yes

wp

Line wrap text contained within PHP pseudo elements, which look like: <?php ... ?>

No line wrap text contained within PHP pseudo elements, which look like: <?php ... ?>

Wrap script literals

Yes

wsl

Line wrap string literals that appear in script attributes

No line wrap string literals that appear in script attributes

Wrap sections

Yes

ws

Line wrap text contained within <![ ... ]> section tags

No line wrap text contained within <![ ... ]> section tags

Character Encoding

Ascii chars

Yes

ac

Can be used to modify behavior of -c (--clean yes) option. If set to "yes" when using -c, &emdash;, &rdquo;, and other named character entities are downgraded to their closest ascii equivalents

Char encoding

Raw

ce0

Tidy will output values above 127 without translating them into entities

Ascii

ce1

Tidy will accept Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) character values, but will use entities for all characters whose value > 127

latin0
ce2

latin1

ce3

Characters above 255 will be written as entities

utf8

ce4

Tidy assumes that both input and output is encoded as UTF-8

iso2022
ce5
mac
ce6
win1252
ce7
ibm858
ce8
utf16le
ce9
utf16be
ce10
utf16
ce10
big5
ce11
shiftjis
ce12

Input encoding

Raw

ie0

Tidy will output values above 127 without translating them into entities

Ascii

ie1

Tidy will accept Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) character values, but will use entities for all characters whose value > 127

latin0
ie2

latin1

ie3

Characters above 255 will be written as entities

utf8

ie4

Tidy assumes that both input and output is encoded as UTF-8

iso2022
ie5
mac
ie6
win1252
ie7
ibm858
ie8
utf16le
ie9
utf16be
ie10
utf16
ie11
big5
ie12
shiftjis
ie13

Output encoding

Raw

oe0

Tidy will output values above 127 without translating them into entities

Ascii

oe1

Tidy will accept Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) character values, but will use entities for all characters whose value > 127

latin0
oe2

latin1

oe3

Characters above 255 will be written as entities

utf8

oe4

Tidy assumes that both input and output is encoded as UTF-8

iso2022
oe5
mac
oe6
win1252
oe7
ibm858
oe8
utf16le
oe9
utf16be
oe10
utf16
oe11
big5
oe12
shiftjis
oe13

Diagnostics

Show errors

Range : 0-100

se

Specifies the number Tidy uses to determine if further errors should be shown

Show info

Yes

si

This option specifies if Tidy should display info-level messages.

Show warnings

Yes

sw

Specifies if Tidy should suppress warnings

No specifies if Tidy should suppress warnings

Miscellaneous

Force output

Yes

fo

Specifies if Tidy should produce output even if errors are encountered

No specifies if Tidy should produce output even if errors are encountered