What is htmlnano?
htmlnano is a highly configurable HTML minifier that helps reduce the size of HTML files by removing unnecessary characters, comments, and whitespace. It also provides various optimization options to improve the performance of web pages.
What are htmlnano's main functionalities?
Minification
This feature removes unnecessary characters, comments, and whitespace from HTML files to reduce their size.
const htmlnano = require('htmlnano');
const html = '<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Test</title> </head> <body> <h1>Hello, world!</h1> </body> </html>';
htmlnano.process(html).then(result => console.log(result.html));
Attribute Optimization
This feature removes empty attributes from HTML tags to further reduce the file size.
const htmlnano = require('htmlnano');
const html = '<img src="image.jpg" alt="" />';
const options = { removeEmptyAttributes: true };
htmlnano.process(html, options).then(result => console.log(result.html));
CSS and JS Minification
This feature minifies inline CSS and JavaScript within HTML files to optimize performance.
const htmlnano = require('htmlnano');
const html = '<style>body { margin: 0; }</style><script>console.log("Hello, world!");</script>';
const options = { minifyCss: true, minifyJs: true };
htmlnano.process(html, options).then(result => console.log(result.html));
Removing Redundant Attributes
This feature removes redundant attributes from HTML tags to make the HTML cleaner and smaller.
const htmlnano = require('htmlnano');
const html = '<input type="text" disabled="disabled" />';
const options = { removeRedundantAttributes: true };
htmlnano.process(html, options).then(result => console.log(result.html));
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clean-css
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