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html prettyprinter

A node port of beautify-html.js by Nochum Sossonko which is based on jsbeautifier by Einar Lielmanis

Installation

from npm (node package manager)

  npm install html

Usage (command line)

  echo "<h2><strong><a href="http://awesome.com">AwesomeCom</a></strong><span>is awesome</span></h2>" | html

returns:

  <h2>
      <strong>
          <a href=http://awesome.com>AwesomeCom</a>
      </strong>
      <span>
          is awesome
      </span>
  </h2>

html foo.html will write the prettified version to stdout.

html *.html will update in place all matching html files with their prettified versions.

Advanced usage

I find myself constantly using the 'Copy as HTML' feature of the Chrome Inspector:

The downside is that that usually the HTML that gets copied is pretty ugly:

On OS X you can use pbpaste and pbcopy to stream your clipboard in and out of unix pipes. With the ugly HTML still in your clipboard run this command:

pbpaste | html | pbcopy

Now when you paste your clipboard into an editor you will get nice, pretty printed HTML:

Building

To rebuild the html module to use the latest version of js-beautifier, see the following instructions:

• clone this repo: git clone git://github.com/maxogden/commonjs-html-prettyprinter.git
• install dev dependencies: npm install
• run the build: npm run-script build

At this point, the lib/html.js file should have been updated with the latest copy of the source from js-beautifier