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HTML Tidy is aconsole application for correcting invalidHyperText Markup Language (HTML), detecting potentialweb accessibility errors, and for improving the layout andindent style of the resulting markup. It is also a cross-platformlibrary forcomputer applications that provides HTML Tidy's features.
HTML Tidy was developed byDave Raggett[2] of theWorld Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Later it was released as aSourceForge project in 2003 and managed by various maintainers.[3]
In 2012, the project was moved toGitHub,[4] and maintained by Michael Smith, also ofW3C,[5] whereHTML5 support was added.
In 2015, theHTML Tidy Advocacy Community Group (HTACG) was formed for management and development of HTML Tidy as a W3C Community Group.[6][7]
HTML Tidy source code is written inANSI C for portability. Compiled binary files are available for a variety of platforms. It is available under theW3C Software Notice and License, a permissiveBSD-style license. Up-to-date versions are available as source code cloned from its GitHubGit version control repository, or in binary packages for multiple operating systems from its GitHub Releases repository.
Examples of corrections to invalid or poorly constructed HTML:
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