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There are two ways to install HTMLHint: globally and locally.
In case you want to include HTMLHint as part of your project, you can install it locally using npm:
npm install htmlhint --save-dev
After that, You can run HTMLHint on any file or directory like this:
./node_modules/.bin/htmlhint www/index.html
./node_modules/.bin/htmlhint www/**/*.html
Or, you can use HTMLHint linter programmatically, like this:
import { HTMLHint } from 'htmlhint'
const htmlVerificationHints = HTMLHint.verify(localHtmlContent)
console.log('htmlVerificationHints', htmlVerificationHints) // this logs a list of `Hint`s which contain information on all linting errors
If you want to make HTMLHint available to tools that run across all of your projects, you can install HTMLHint globally using npm:
npm install htmlhint -g
After that, you can run HTMLHint on any file like this:
htmlhint www/index.html
htmlhint www/**/*.html
You can even launch HTMLHint to analyze an URL:
htmlhint https://htmlhint.com/
Search .htmlhintrc file in current directory and all parent directories:
htmlhint
htmlhint test.html
Custom config file:
htmlhint --config htmlhint.conf test.html
Custom rules:
htmlhint --rules tag-pair,id-class-value=underline index.html
Inline rules in test.html:
<!--htmlhint tag-pair,id-class-value:underline -->
<html>
<head>
...
</head>
</html>
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