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NAME

       tidy - validate, correct, and pretty-print HTML files
       (version: 25 March 2009)

SYNOPSIS

       tidy [option ...] [file ...] [option ...] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

       Tidy  reads HTML, XHTML and XML files and writes cleaned up markup.  For HTML variants, it
       detects and corrects many common coding errors and strives to produce visually  equivalent
       markup  that  is both W3C compliant and works on most browsers. A common use of Tidy is to
       convert plain HTML to XHTML.  For generic XML files, Tidy is limited to  correcting  basic
       well-formedness errors and pretty printing.

       If  no  input  file  is  specified,  Tidy  reads the standard input.  If no output file is
       specified, Tidy writes the tidied markup to the standard output.   If  no  error  file  is
       specified,  Tidy  writes  messages  to  the standard error.  For command line options that
       expect a numerical argument, a default is assumed if no meaningful value can be found.

OPTIONS

   File manipulation
       -output <file>, -o <file>
              write output to the specified <file> (output-file: <file>)

       -config <file>
              set configuration options from the specified <file>

       -file <file>, -f <file>
              write errors and warnings to the specified <file> (error-file: <file>)

       -modify, -m
              modify the original input files (write-back: yes)

   Processing directives
       -indent, -i
              indent element content (indent: auto)

       -wrap <column>, -w <column>
              wrap text at the specified <column>. 0 is assumed if <column> is missing. When this
              option  is omitted, the default of the configuration option "wrap" applies.  (wrap:
              <column>)

       -upper, -u
              force tags to upper case (uppercase-tags: yes)

       -clean, -c
              replace FONT, NOBR and CENTER tags by CSS (clean: yes)

       -bare, -b
              strip out smart quotes and em dashes, etc.  (bare: yes)

       -numeric, -n
              output numeric rather than named entities (numeric-entities: yes)

       -errors, -e
              show only errors and warnings (markup: no)

       -quiet, -q
              suppress nonessential output (quiet: yes)

       -omit  omit optional end tags (hide-endtags: yes)

       -xml   specify the input is well formed XML (input-xml: yes)

       -asxml, -asxhtml
              convert HTML to well formed XHTML (output-xhtml: yes)

       -ashtml
              force XHTML to well formed HTML (output-html: yes)

       -access <level>
              do additional accessibility checks (<level> = 0, 1, 2, 3). 0 is assumed if  <level>
              is missing.  (accessibility-check: <level>)

   Character encodings
       -raw   output values above 127 without conversion to entities

       -ascii use ISO-8859-1 for input, US-ASCII for output

       -latin0
              use ISO-8859-15 for input, US-ASCII for output

       -latin1
              use ISO-8859-1 for both input and output

       -iso2022
              use ISO-2022 for both input and output

       -utf8  use UTF-8 for both input and output

       -mac   use MacRoman for input, US-ASCII for output

       -win1252
              use Windows-1252 for input, US-ASCII for output

       -ibm858
              use IBM-858 (CP850+Euro) for input, US-ASCII for output

       -utf16le
              use UTF-16LE for both input and output

       -utf16be
              use UTF-16BE for both input and output

       -utf16 use UTF-16 for both input and output

       -big5  use Big5 for both input and output

       -shiftjis
              use Shift_JIS for both input and output

       -language <lang>
              set the two-letter language code <lang> (for future use) (language: <lang>)

   Miscellaneous
       -version, -v
              show the version of Tidy

       -help, -h, -?
              list the command line options

       -xml-help
              list the command line options in XML format

       -help-config
              list all configuration options

       -xml-config
              list all configuration options in XML format

       -show-config
              list the current configuration settings

USAGE

       Use  --optionX  valueX  for  the  detailed  configuration  option  "optionX" with argument
       "valueX".  See also below under Detailed Configuration Options as to how  to  conveniently
       group all such options in a single config file.

       Input/Output default to stdin/stdout respectively. Single letter options apart from -f and
       -o may be combined as in:

          tidy -f errs.txt -imu foo.html

       For further info on HTML see http://www.w3.org/MarkUp.

       For   more   information   about   HTML   Tidy,   visit   the   project   home   page   at
       http://tidy.sourceforge.net.   Here,  you  will find links to documentation, mailing lists
       (with searchable archives) and links to report bugs.

ENVIRONMENT

       HTML_TIDY
              Name of the default configuration file.  This should be an absolute path, since you
              will  probably invoke tidy from different directories.  The value of HTML_TIDY will
              be parsed after the compiled-in  default  (defined  with  -DTIDY_CONFIG_FILE),  but
              before any of the files specified using -config.

EXIT STATUS

       0      All input files were processed successfully.

       1      There were warnings.

       2      There were errors.

______________________________


DETAILED CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

       This  section describes the Detailed (i.e., "expanded") Options, which may be specified by
       preceding each option with -- at the command line, followed by its desired  value,  OR  by
       placing the options and values in a configuration file, and telling tidy to read that file
       with the -config standard option.

SYNOPSIS

       tidy --option1 value1 --option2 value2 [standard options ...]
       tidy -config config-file [standard options ...]

WARNING

       The options detailed here do not include the "standard" command-line options (i.e.,  those
       preceded by a single '-') described above in the first section of this man page.

DESCRIPTION

       A  list of options for configuring the behavior of Tidy, which can be passed either on the
       command line, or specified in a configuration file.

       A Tidy configuration file is simply a text file, where each option is listed on a separate
       line in the form

          option1: value1
          option2: value2
          etc.

       The  permissible  values  for  a given option depend on the option's Type.  There are five
       types: Boolean, AutoBool, DocType, Enum, and String. Boolean types allow  any  of  yes/no,
       y/n,  true/false,  t/f,  1/0.   AutoBools  allow auto in addition to the values allowed by
       Booleans.  Integer types take non-negative  integers.   String  types  generally  have  no
       defaults,  and  you  should provide them in non-quoted form (unless you wish the output to
       contain the literal quotes).

       Enum, Encoding, and DocType  "types"  have  a  fixed  repertoire  of  items;  consult  the
       Example[s] provided below for the option[s] in question.

       You only need to provide options and values for those whose defaults you wish to override,
       although you may wish to include some already-defaulted options and values for the sake of
       documentation and explicitness.

       Here is a sample config file, with at least one example of each of the five Types:

           // sample Tidy configuration options
           output-xhtml: yes
           add-xml-decl: no
           doctype: strict
           char-encoding: ascii
           indent: auto
           wrap: 76
           repeated-attributes: keep-last
           error-file: errs.txt

       Below  is  a  summary  and  brief  description  of  each  of  the options. They are listed
       alphabetically within each category.  There are five categories: HTML, XHTML, XML options,
       Diagnostics  options,  Pretty Print options, Character Encoding options, and Miscellaneous
       options.

OPTIONS

   HTML, XHTML, XML options:
       add-xml-decl

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should add the XML declaration when outputting XML or
              XHTML.  Note  that  if  the input already includes an <?xml ... ?> declaration then
              this option will be ignored. If the encoding  for  the  output  is  different  from
              "ascii",  one  of  the  utf  encodings or "raw", the declaration is always added as
              required by the XML standard.

                                                         See also: char-encoding, output-encoding

       add-xml-space

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should add xml:space="preserve" to elements  such  as
              <PRE>,  <STYLE>  and <SCRIPT> when generating XML. This is needed if the whitespace
              in such elements is to be parsed appropriately without having access to the DTD.

       alt-text

              Type:    String
              Default: -
              Default: -

              This option specifies the default "alt=" text Tidy uses for <IMG> attributes.  This
              feature  is  dangerous  as  it  suppresses  further accessibility warnings. You are
              responsible for making your documents accessible to people  who  can  not  see  the
              images!

       anchor-as-name

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  controls  the  deletion or addition of the name attribute in elements
              where it can serve as anchor. If set to "yes", a name  attribute,  if  not  already
              existing,  is  added along an existing id attribute if the DTD allows it. If set to
              "no", any existing name attribute is removed if an id attribute exists or has  been
              added.

       assume-xml-procins

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option specifies if Tidy should change the parsing of processing instructions
              to require ?> as the terminator rather than >. This option is automatically set  if
              the input is in XML.

       bare

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies if Tidy should strip Microsoft specific HTML from Word 2000
              documents, and output spaces rather than non-breaking spaces where  they  exist  in
              the input.

       clean

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies  if  Tidy  should strip out surplus presentational tags and
              attributes replacing them by style rules and structural markup as  appropriate.  It
              works well on the HTML saved by Microsoft Office products.

                                                                         See also: drop-font-tags

       css-prefix

              Type:    String
              Default: -
              Default: -

              This  option  specifies the prefix that Tidy uses for styles rules. By default, "c"
              will be used.

       decorate-inferred-ul

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should decorate inferred UL elements  with  some  CSS
              markup to avoid indentation to the right.

       doctype

              Type:    DocType
              Default: auto
              Example: omit, auto, strict, transitional, user

              This  option  specifies the DOCTYPE declaration generated by Tidy. If set to "omit"
              the output won't contain a DOCTYPE declaration. If set to "auto" (the default) Tidy
              will  use  an  educated  guess  based  upon the contents of the document. If set to
              "strict", Tidy will set the DOCTYPE to the strict  DTD.  If  set  to  "loose",  the
              DOCTYPE  is  set  to  the loose (transitional) DTD. Alternatively, you can supply a
              string for the formal public identifier (FPI).

              For example:
              doctype: "-//ACME//DTD HTML 3.14159//EN"

              If you specify the FPI for an XHTML document, Tidy will set the  system  identifier
              to an empty string. For an HTML document, Tidy adds a system identifier only if one
              was already present in order to preserve the processing mode of some browsers. Tidy
              leaves  the  DOCTYPE  for  generic  XML documents unchanged. --doctype omit implies
              --numeric-entities yes. This option does not offer a  validation  of  the  document
              conformance.

       drop-empty-paras

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should discard empty paragraphs.

       drop-font-tags

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies  if  Tidy  should  discard <FONT> and <CENTER> tags without
              creating the corresponding style rules. This option can be set independently of the
              clean option.

                                                                                  See also: clean

       drop-proprietary-attributes

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies if Tidy should strip out proprietary attributes, such as MS
              data binding attributes.

       enclose-block-text

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should insert a <P> element to enclose  any  text  it
              finds  in  any element that allows mixed content for HTML transitional but not HTML
              strict.

       enclose-text

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should enclose any text it finds in the body  element
              within a <P> element. This is useful when you want to take existing HTML and use it
              with a style sheet.

       escape-cdata

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should convert <![CDATA[]]> sections to normal text.

       fix-backslash

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should replace backslash characters "\"  in  URLs  by
              forward slashes "/".

       fix-bad-comments

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should replace unexpected hyphens with "=" characters
              when it comes across adjacent hyphens. The default is yes. This option is  provided
              for users of Cold Fusion which uses the comment syntax: <!--- --->

       fix-uri

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies  if  Tidy should check attribute values that carry URIs for
              illegal characters and if such are found, escape them as HTML 4 recommends.

       hide-comments

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should print out comments.

       hide-endtags

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should omit optional  end-tags  when  generating  the
              pretty printed markup. This option is ignored if you are outputting to XML.

       indent-cdata

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should indent <![CDATA[]]> sections.

       input-xml

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies  if  Tidy  should  use the XML parser rather than the error
              correcting HTML parser.

       join-classes

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should combine class names to generate a  single  new
              class name, if multiple class assignments are detected on an element.

                                                       See also: join-styles, repeated-attributes

       join-styles

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should combine styles to generate a single new style,
              if multiple style values are detected on an element.

                                                      See also: join-classes, repeated-attributes

       literal-attributes

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy  should  ensure  that  whitespace  characters  within
              attribute values are passed through unchanged.

       logical-emphasis

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option specifies if Tidy should replace any occurrence of <I> by <EM> and any
              occurrence of <B>  by  <STRONG>.  In  both  cases,  the  attributes  are  preserved
              unchanged.  This  option  can  be set independently of the clean and drop-font-tags
              options.

       lower-literals

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should convert the value of an attribute that takes a
              list of predefined values to lower case. This is required for XHTML documents.

       merge-divs

              Type:    AutoBool
              Default: auto
              Example: auto, y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              Can be used to modify behavior of -c (--clean yes) option. This option specifies if
              Tidy should merge nested <div>  such  as  "<div><div>...</div></div>".  If  set  to
              "auto",  the  attributes  of  the  inner <div> are moved to the outer one. As well,
              nested <div> with ID attributes are not merged. If set to "yes", the attributes  of
              the inner <div> are discarded with the exception of "class" and "style".

                                                                     See also: clean, merge-spans

       merge-spans

              Type:    AutoBool
              Default: auto
              Example: auto, y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              Can be used to modify behavior of -c (--clean yes) option. This option specifies if
              Tidy should  merge  nested  <span>  such  as  "<span><span>...</span></span>".  The
              algorithm is identical to the one used by --merge-divs.

                                                                      See also: clean, merge-divs

       ncr

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should allow numeric character references.

       new-blocklevel-tags

              Type:    Tag names
              Default: -
              Example: tagX, tagY, ...

              This  option  specifies  new  block-level  tags. This option takes a space or comma
              separated list of tag names. Unless you declare  new  tags,  Tidy  will  refuse  to
              generate  a  tidied  file  if  the input includes previously unknown tags. Note you
              can't change the content model for elements such as <TABLE>, <UL>, <OL>  and  <DL>.
              This option is ignored in XML mode.

                                          See also: new-empty-tags, new-inline-tags, new-pre-tags

       new-empty-tags

              Type:    Tag names
              Default: -
              Example: tagX, tagY, ...

              This  option  specifies  new  empty inline tags. This option takes a space or comma
              separated list of tag names. Unless you declare  new  tags,  Tidy  will  refuse  to
              generate  a  tidied file if the input includes previously unknown tags. Remember to
              also declare empty tags as either inline or blocklevel. This option is  ignored  in
              XML mode.

                                     See also: new-blocklevel-tags, new-inline-tags, new-pre-tags

       new-inline-tags

              Type:    Tag names
              Default: -
              Example: tagX, tagY, ...

              This option specifies new non-empty inline tags. This option takes a space or comma
              separated list of tag names. Unless you declare  new  tags,  Tidy  will  refuse  to
              generate  a  tidied file if the input includes previously unknown tags. This option
              is ignored in XML mode.

                                      See also: new-blocklevel-tags, new-empty-tags, new-pre-tags

       new-pre-tags

              Type:    Tag names
              Default: -
              Example: tagX, tagY, ...

              This option specifies new tags that are to be processed in exactly the same way  as
              HTML's  <PRE>  element.  This  option  takes a space or comma separated list of tag
              names. Unless you declare new tags, Tidy will refuse to generate a tidied  file  if
              the  input  includes previously unknown tags. Note you can not as yet add new CDATA
              elements (similar to <SCRIPT>). This option is ignored in XML mode.

                                   See also: new-blocklevel-tags, new-empty-tags, new-inline-tags

       numeric-entities

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should output entities other than the  built-in  HTML
              entities (&amp;, &lt;, &gt; and &quot;) in the numeric rather than the named entity
              form. Only entities compatible with the DOCTYPE  declaration  generated  are  used.
              Entities   that   can   be  represented  in  the  output  encoding  are  translated
              correspondingly.

                                                             See also: doctype, preserve-entities

       output-html

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should generate pretty printed output, writing it  as
              HTML.

       output-xhtml

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option specifies if Tidy should generate pretty printed output, writing it as
              extensible HTML. This option causes Tidy to set the DOCTYPE and  default  namespace
              as  appropriate  to XHTML. If a DOCTYPE or namespace is given they will checked for
              consistency with the content of the document. In the case of an inconsistency,  the
              corrected  values  will appear in the output. For XHTML, entities can be written as
              named or numeric entities  according  to  the  setting  of  the  "numeric-entities"
              option.  The  original case of tags and attributes will be preserved, regardless of
              other options.

       output-xml

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should pretty print output, writing it as well-formed
              XML.  Any  entities  not  defined in XML 1.0 will be written as numeric entities to
              allow them to be parsed by a XML parser. The original case of tags  and  attributes
              will be preserved, regardless of other options.

       preserve-entities

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should preserve the well-formed entitites as found in
              the input.

       quote-ampersand

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should output unadorned & characters as &amp;.

       quote-marks

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should output " characters as &quot; as is  preferred
              by  some  editing  environments. The apostrophe character ' is written out as &#39;
              since many web browsers don't yet support &apos;.

       quote-nbsp

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if  Tidy  should  output  non-breaking  space  characters  as
              entities, rather than as the Unicode character value 160 (decimal).

       repeated-attributes

              Type:    enum
              Default: keep-last
              Example: keep-first, keep-last

              This  option  specifies  if  Tidy  should  keep  the first or last attribute, if an
              attribute is repeated, e.g. has two align attributes.

                                                              See also: join-classes, join-styles

       replace-color

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should replace numeric values in color attributes  by
              HTML/XHTML color names where defined, e.g. replace "#ffffff" with "white".

       show-body-only

              Type:    AutoBool
              Default: no
              Example: auto, y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option specifies if Tidy should print only the contents of the body tag as an
              HTML fragment. If set to "auto", this is performed only if the body  tag  has  been
              inferred.  Useful  for  incorporating  existing whole pages as a portion of another
              page. This option has no effect if XML output is requested.

       uppercase-attributes

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should output attribute  names  in  upper  case.  The
              default  is  no, which results in lower case attribute names, except for XML input,
              where the original case is preserved.

       uppercase-tags

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should output tag names in upper case. The default is
              no, which results in lower case tag names, except for XML input, where the original
              case is preserved.

       word-2000

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should go to great pains to strip out all the surplus
              stuff  Microsoft  Word  2000  inserts  when you save Word documents as "Web pages".
              Doesn't handle embedded images or VML. You should consider using Word's  "Save  As:
              Web Page, Filtered".

   Diagnostics options:
       accessibility-check

              Type:    enum
              Default: 0 (Tidy Classic)
              Example:  0  (Tidy  Classic),  1  (Priority  1  Checks),  2  (Priority 2 Checks), 3
              (Priority 3 Checks)

              This option specifies what level of  accessibility  checking,  if  any,  that  Tidy
              should do. Level 0 is equivalent to Tidy Classic's accessibility checking. For more
              information  on  Tidy's  accessibility  checking,  visit  the  Adaptive  Technology
              Resource       Centre      at      the      University      of      Toronto      at
              http://www.aprompt.ca/Tidy/accessibilitychecks.html.

       show-errors

              Type:    Integer
              Default: 6
              Example: 0, 1, 2, ...

              This option specifies the number Tidy uses to determine if further errors should be
              shown. If set to 0, then no errors are shown.

       show-warnings

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies if Tidy should suppress warnings. This can be useful when a
              few errors are hidden in a flurry of warnings.

   Pretty Print options:
       break-before-br

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should output a line break before each <BR> element.

       indent

              Type:    AutoBool
              Default: no
              Example: auto, y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should indent block-level tags.  If  set  to  "auto",
              this option causes Tidy to decide whether or not to indent the content of tags such
              as TITLE, H1-H6, LI, TD, TD, or P depending on whether or not the content  includes
              a  block-level  element. You are advised to avoid setting indent to yes as this can
              expose layout bugs in some browsers.

                                                                          See also: indent-spaces

       indent-attributes

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should begin each attribute on a new line.

       indent-spaces

              Type:    Integer
              Default: 2
              Example: 0, 1, 2, ...

              This option specifies the number of  spaces  Tidy  uses  to  indent  content,  when
              indentation is enabled.

                                                                                 See also: indent

       markup

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies  if  Tidy  should  generate a pretty printed version of the
              markup. Note that Tidy  won't  generate  a  pretty  printed  version  if  it  finds
              significant errors (see force-output).

       punctuation-wrap

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies  if  Tidy  should  line  wrap after some Unicode or Chinese
              punctuation characters.

       sort-attributes

              Type:    enum
              Default: none
              Example: none, alpha

              This option specifies that tidy should sort attributes within an element using  the
              specified  sort  algorithm.  If  set  to  "alpha",  the  algorithm  is an ascending
              alphabetic sort.

       split

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              Currently not used. Tidy Classic only.

       tab-size

              Type:    Integer
              Default: 8
              Example: 0, 1, 2, ...

              This option specifies the number of columns that Tidy uses between  successive  tab
              stops.  It is used to map tabs to spaces when reading the input. Tidy never outputs
              tabs.

       vertical-space

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should add some empty lines for readability.

       wrap

              Type:    Integer
              Default: 68
              Example: 0 (no wrapping), 1, 2, ...

              This option specifies the right margin Tidy uses for line wrapping. Tidy  tries  to
              wrap  lines so that they do not exceed this length. Set wrap to zero if you want to
              disable line wrapping.

       wrap-asp

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should line wrap text  contained  within  ASP  pseudo
              elements, which look like: <% ... %>.

       wrap-attributes

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies  if  Tidy  should  line  wrap  attribute values, for easier
              editing. This option can be set independently of wrap-script-literals.

                                                                   See also: wrap-script-literals

       wrap-jste

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should line wrap text contained  within  JSTE  pseudo
              elements, which look like: <# ... #>.

       wrap-php

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies  if  Tidy should line wrap text contained within PHP pseudo
              elements, which look like: <?php ... ?>.

       wrap-script-literals

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should line  wrap  string  literals  that  appear  in
              script  attributes. Tidy wraps long script string literals by inserting a backslash
              character before the line break.

                                                                        See also: wrap-attributes

       wrap-sections

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should line wrap text contained  within  <![  ...  ]>
              section tags.

   Character Encoding options:
       ascii-chars

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              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.

                                                                                  See also: clean

       char-encoding

              Type:    Encoding
              Default: ascii
              Example:  raw, ascii, latin0, latin1, utf8, iso2022, mac, win1252, ibm858, utf16le,
              utf16be, utf16, big5, shiftjis

              This option specifies the character encoding Tidy  uses  for  both  the  input  and
              output. For ascii, Tidy will accept Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) character values, but will
              use entities for all characters whose value > 127. For raw, Tidy will output values
              above  127 without translating them into entities. For latin1, characters above 255
              will be written as entities. For utf8, Tidy assumes that both input and  output  is
              encoded  as  UTF-8. You can use iso2022 for files encoded using the ISO-2022 family
              of encodings e.g. ISO-2022-JP.  For  mac  and  win1252,  Tidy  will  accept  vendor
              specific  character  values, but will use entities for all characters whose value >
              127. For unsupported encodings, use an external utility  to  convert  to  and  from
              UTF-8.

                                                        See also: input-encoding, output-encoding

       input-encoding

              Type:    Encoding
              Default: latin1
              Example:  raw, ascii, latin0, latin1, utf8, iso2022, mac, win1252, ibm858, utf16le,
              utf16be, utf16, big5, shiftjis

              This option specifies the character encoding Tidy uses for  the  input.  See  char-
              encoding for more info.

                                                                          See also: char-encoding

       language

              Type:    String
              Default: -
              Default: -

              Currently  not used, but this option specifies the language Tidy uses (for instance
              "en").

       newline

              Type:    enum
              Default: Platform dependent
              Example: LF, CRLF, CR

              The default is appropriate to the current platform: CRLF on PC-DOS, MS-Windows  and
              OS/2, CR on Classic Mac OS, and LF everywhere else (Unix and Linux).

       output-bom

              Type:    AutoBool
              Default: auto
              Example: auto, y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies  if  Tidy  should write a Unicode Byte Order Mark character
              (BOM; also known as Zero  Width  No-Break  Space;  has  value  of  U+FEFF)  to  the
              beginning  of  the  output;  only  for UTF-8 and UTF-16 output encodings. If set to
              "auto", this option causes Tidy to write a BOM to the output  only  if  a  BOM  was
              present at the beginning of the input. A BOM is always written for XML/XHTML output
              using UTF-16 output encodings.

       output-encoding

              Type:    Encoding
              Default: ascii
              Example: raw, ascii, latin0, latin1, utf8, iso2022, mac, win1252, ibm858,  utf16le,
              utf16be, utf16, big5, shiftjis

              This  option  specifies  the character encoding Tidy uses for the output. See char-
              encoding for more info.  May  only  be  different  from  input-encoding  for  Latin
              encodings (ascii, latin0, latin1, mac, win1252, ibm858).

                                                                          See also: char-encoding

   Miscellaneous options:
       error-file

              Type:    String
              Default: -
              Default: -

              This  option  specifies  the error file Tidy uses for errors and warnings. Normally
              errors and warnings are output to "stderr".

                                                                            See also: output-file

       force-output

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should produce output even if errors are encountered.
              Use  this option with care - if Tidy reports an error, this means Tidy was not able
              to, or is not sure how to, fix the error, so the resulting output may  not  reflect
              your intention.

       gnu-emacs

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies  if  Tidy should change the format for reporting errors and
              warnings to a format that is more easily parsed by GNU Emacs.

       gnu-emacs-file

              Type:    String
              Default: -
              Default: -

              Used internally.

       keep-time

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should keep the original modification time  of  files
              that  Tidy  modifies  in place. The default is no. Setting the option to yes allows
              you to tidy files without causing these files to be uploaded to a web  server  when
              using  a  tool  such  as  SiteCopy.  Note  this  feature  is  not supported on some
              platforms.

       output-file

              Type:    String
              Default: -
              Default: -

              This option specifies the output file Tidy uses  for  markup.  Normally  markup  is
              written to "stdout".

                                                                             See also: error-file

       quiet

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This  option  specifies  if Tidy should output the summary of the numbers of errors
              and warnings, or the welcome or informational messages.

       slide-style

              Type:    String
              Default: -
              Default: -

              Currently not used. Tidy Classic only.

       tidy-mark

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: yes
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should add a meta element to  the  document  head  to
              indicate that the document has been tidied. Tidy won't add a meta element if one is
              already present.

       write-back

              Type:    Boolean
              Default: no
              Example: y/n, yes/no, t/f, true/false, 1/0

              This option specifies if Tidy should write back the tidied markup to the same  file
              it  read  from.  You  are  advised to keep copies of important files before tidying
              them, as on rare occasions the result may not be what you expect.

SEE ALSO

       HTML Tidy Project Page at http://tidy.sourceforge.net

AUTHOR

       Tidy was written by Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>, and is now maintained and developed by  the
       Tidy team at http://tidy.sourceforge.net/.  It is released under the MIT Licence.

       Generated automatically with HTML Tidy released on 25 March 2009.