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The JTidy plugin integrates the reference JTidy utility (r938 version) which will help you to clean and correct HTML files.
The Tidy Home Page will give you an overview of Tidy's numerous features.
JTidy requires:
JDK 1.5
jEdit 4.3
ErrorList 1.9
Beauty 0.7.0
All Tidy options are available from . As Tidy provides numerous options, they have been gathered into different categories:
General
Wrap/Indent
Format
Clean
XML
New Tags
Most options have good help right in the options dialog, so they shouldn't need explanation here. One item of note is the option for "No generated output". If this is selected, but you use the Beauty plugin to beautify html files with JTidy, this option is ignored.
Once you have set all your options you can either:
Tidy the current HTML buffer
Generate a configuration file reflecting the current configuration: Tidy is primarily a command-line tool and this file could be used to automate "tidification".
When Tidy encounters an incorrect HTML construct, it throws either a warning or an error. Contrary to warnings, Tidy errors must be manually corrected since Tidy errors cause Tidy to fail.
These messages are captured and analyzed and then sent to the ErrorList plugin. This enables ErrorList to highlight warnings and errors in the original HTML buffer and to give a convenient access to the origin of the warnings/errors.
All messages except warnings are sent to the Activity Log.
When a file has a few errors among many warnings, it can be useful to click the button in ErrorList to see only the errors.
The source code is distributed under the GPL. Please see http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
The Tidy utility is written by Dave Raggett at http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/.
The java port of HTML tidy utility was developed and kept up-to-date for a long time by Andy Quick.
Sami Lempinen and the JTidy team have taken over JTidy developments. JTidy is now hosted at http://lempinen.net/sami/jtidy/. Further developments are made on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtidy/.
The preferred way to send bug reports is to use the Sourceforge Bug Tracker at http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=588
You can also write to:
or jEdit-users mailing-list
<jedit-users@lists.sourceforge.net>;
or jEdit-devel mailing-list
<jedit-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>.