Format HTML document

Question

I like the feature in Visual Studio for formatting an HTML document (CTRL+K, CTRL+D).

Is there a plugin with the same functionality in any other (free) editors, e.g. Notepad++?

Solution

If you mean colorizing and formatting from "Format", Notpad++ has HTML tidying feature via Tidy2 plugin. Install the plugin with the Plugin Manager, and a new menu Tidy2 item will appears under the Plugins, and from there you can formatting HTML.

Also Netbeans IDE has formatting(ALT+F) feature for many languages (including PHP, HTML, CSS and JS).

Comments

[irperez]

Are you kidding me, this is a great question. And it answered my problem. Please reopen!

[Joeytje50]

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[Pimp Trizkit]

Both these comments are true! What a contradiction for SO... The best place for our questions.... is not the place for all of them. (Hence all the sister sites from here now, lol)

[AlexC]

I mean, when I have not so viewable code (no tabs, no space etc...), I don't want to spend time to understand that one, I want to format in normal viewable code .

[Emre Yazici]

Use Tidy options in Notepad++, it has different formatting options.

[Maleki]

TextFX > TextFX HTML Tidy > Tidy Note: Subject to change. Not sure why this answer wasn't accepted.

[Perhentian]

FYI TextFX in Notepad++ is a top level menu which is created after you install the TextFx plugin.

[Zach Lysobey]

So, to be clear, this TextFX stuff is not "builtin" after all?

[Frank Nocke]

TextFX comes with the default Notepad++ install. It regrettably contains no formatting (as in: changing indentation into a structured thing)

[Chris]

If you don't see the menu, follow these directions.

[Jake Graham Arnold]

HTML tidy didn't come with TextFX for me follow: stackoverflow.com/questions/6985637/…