The HTML Formatter: How to have easy to read HTML and spend less time debugging

• Perfectly cleans up that messy code that would take 15 - 30 minutes to format for every file. It's a huge time saver!


• Makes nested divs, nested tables, Coldfusion logic make sense in seconds rather than a half hour!


• Debug layout issues super fast!


• Makes copies of files and directories...it never, ever modifies the originals.


• Files it will operate on totally customizable from config file


• Tags it will format are totally customizable from config file


• Can log warnings to log file based on entry in the config file


• Informs you of tags closed out of order and their position in the new file


• Informs you of when the number of opening and closing tags do not match


• If opening and closing tags do not match, it will do it's best to determine where it should properly indent so that formatting still looks perfect.


• Tags that open and close on the same line in the source file (that are specified in the config file) will be left to a single line so that TR TD /TD /TR are on one line.


• Leaves the content in between script tags alone


• Works great for any file where HTML / XML type tags need formatting: HTML, ASP, PHP, Smarty templates, XML, etc...You just need to know what container tags you want be indented. Predefined tags are in the config file for HTML and Coldfusion


• Absolutely no spyware or adware!

You can drop a single file or folder on HTML Formatter and it will make a copy of that file or directory in the original source directory. It will append _INDENTED to the new directory or filenamexxx_INDENTED.extension. For example, paris.html becomes paris_INDENTED.html. It will then go through and properly format HTML or Coldfusion code for you so that an opening tag will be on it's own line, code nested in between the open and close tag will be tabbed in according to how many nested tags / indentations there need to be. The HTML Formatter will also tell by line number where certain tags are closed out of order and if certain tags are not properly opened or closed. It will also tell you if your code is perfect!

Let's say you drop a single Coldfusion file on HTML Formatter, it will make a copy of your code and put that new file in the same dir as the source file. It will go through and properly indent all the code under <CFIF>, <CFTRY>, etc statements so that the logic flow of the code can easily be understood...Without that indentation, it can be near impossible to determine where a container element begins and ends...the bigger the file, the more this program becomes a savior.