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Eclipse HTML Tidy

Format and validate HTML, XHTML and XML documents within your favorite editor.

Download Eclipse HTML Tidy 1.2.2.patch-01-1 for EasyEclipse 1.2.2:

HTML Tidy Eclipse plugin provides two very useful tasks of HTML Tidy: Formatting and Checking (X)HTML code. It doesn't provide any editor and can be used while using your favorite HTML or XML editor.

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Installing this plugin

This plugin is in the EasyEclipse Server Java, EasyEclipse for LAMP and EasyEclipse for PHP distributions.

You can also install it on any EasyEclipse distribution, because it has no dependencies.

Getting started

Help is available for this plugin, in the Help > Help Contents menu in EasyEclipse.

To use HTML Tidy, just right-click on an HTML file in the Navigator or Package Explorer View, and select HTML Tidy > Format. The HTML will be formatted, missing tags will be added, and a message will give the results of the check. Additional documentation, in particular a description of the rules used to check, is available in the help.

Tests

(Notes that tests are only displayed if the page is served statically)

Passing:

- new project 
        - new file, call it "myfile.html"
        - paste this content:
        <html><head></head><body>hello, <i>francois</i></body></html>
        - right-click on file in explorer, select "HTML Tidy > Format"
        - message should appear, saying 1 warning
        - HTML should be reformated
        - line should have been added: <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org">
        - right-click on again file in explorer, select "HTML Tidy > Format"
        - should say no error

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Changelog

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.0.1:

Patched: Moved the top level menu under the Edit menu. Grouped the project properties under one item. Those two small changes make this plugin less intrusive in the UI.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.0.0:

Initial release (with Eclipse HTML Tidy 1.2.2).

Credits and License

Credits: Pierre Baumard, Jamie McCrindle

This plugin is derived from:

Java HTML Tidy - JTidy
Tidy HTML parser and pretty printer
Copyright (c) 1998-2000 World Wide Web Consortium (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All Rights Reserved.
JTidy License
W3C Software License

This plugin owes its existence to the following people:

Dave Raggett for developing the original HTML Tidy
Berthold Daum for conceiving the Overlay Pages
and the development team of HTML Tidy and JTidy

This plugin is licensed under the Common Public License 1.0 license.