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    clean up HTML

    There was some mention of this in another thread but I think a new one is justified.

    What progs are there about for rewriting/cleaning up HTML so that it conforms to some sort of standard.

    a friend has got a site of several hundred pages that has lots of errors when it's validated.

    HTMLTidy was mentioned. Do peeps recommend this or have any other suggestions?
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    Arachnophilia (which I rate very highly) does this, amongst many other things while remaining simple and uncluttered.

    It can set the indents on tags and scripts etc, find mismatched tags, and beautify the html.

    And it's freeware.

    http://www.arachnoid.com/

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    thanks m8

    any others anyone?
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    thanx
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    polestar, you are a little retro like me I think. Have you seen Lutus' simple database app for comma delimited files? http://www.arachnoid.com/dbedit/index.html Do you happen do know something similar to this? I would like easier columnar sorting (i.e. just click on the header cell) and at least one field big enough to read a longer entry comfortably. I've found just one other and it has a lousy search and is boggled down with crappy animations.


    Sorry for butting in on your thread Luce, but it seemed like a good opportunity.
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    aceHTML ...
    you can find it at download.com
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    these seem to be more around making it look nicer I want one that will remove/sort badley nested tags and stuff.
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    That's what Tidy is supposed to do. If it can untangle a multiple table mess I don't know. I think that would be impossible since a "machine" can't know what's intended.
    I'm not a user myself but I know it's used in the best circles.
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    people shouldn't write this nasty messed up code to start with
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    The peculiar thing is that people that write their code by hand use Tidy as a validator. That it is not. I can't understand this. If I write <B> it's because I want <B>. If I wanted <STRONG> or <EM> I would write that. Why would I need Tidy to do it for me? Raggett himself says it's a cleanup tool for the superfluous output from MS Word and similar. Guess it's Raggett boy's holy status that makes the standard crazy but insecure think they can't live without it.
    I believe it does a good job cleaning up, though. ""
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    maybe I need to play with it some more. All my pages are perfect anyway so maybe I need to find some messy ones about. muddle.f2s?
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    Try www.microsoft.com.
    I thought you needed it for some Word or ----Page crap?
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    Originally posted by meow
    Try www.microsoft.com.
    I thought you needed it for some Word or ----Page crap?
    no this stuff was all done in notepad you'll be pleased to know

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    Why not simply use a validator then? You have to do the corrections yourself of course.
    http://arealvalidator.com/
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