Welcome to LogicHammer.com: a site I am assembling up to put up some of the web development tools and utilities that I have created to make my life easier.

The HTML Formatter, formerly the HTML Indenter, the Markup Indenter, and / or the HTML Beautifier, arose out of the need to make code more readable by properly indenting all the markup tags. The HTML Formatter can handle all HTMLish markup (including indenting ColdFusion code) and you can specify what extensions it operates on and what tags you want to have formatted.

Features of HTML Formatter

• Perfectly cleans up that messy code that would take 15 - 30 minutes to format for every file. It's a huge time saver!
• Makes nested divs, nested tables, Coldfusion logic make sense in seconds rather than a half hour!
• Debug layout issues super fast!
• Makes copies of files and directories...it never, ever modifies the originals.
• Files it will operate on totally customizable from config file
• Tags it will format are totally customizable from config file
• Can log warnings to log file based on entry in the config file
• Informs you of tags closed out of order and their position in the new file
• Informs you of when the number of opening and closing tags do not match
• If opening and closing tags do not match, it will do it's best to determine where it should properly indent so that formatting still looks perfect.
• Tags that open and close on the same line in the source file (that are specified in the config file) will be left to a single line so that TR TD /TD /TR are on one line.
• Leaves the content in between script tags alone
• Works great for any file where HTML / XML type tags need formatting: HTML, ASP, PHP, Smarty templates, XML, etc...You just need to know what container tags you want be indented. Predefined tags are in the config file for HTML and Coldfusion
• Can be called from the command line and used that way.
• Better than an online html formatter as it can process folders and files straight from the "Send To" context menu!
• Absolutely no spyware or adware!

You can drop a single file or folder on HTML Formatter and it will make a copy of that file or directory in the original source directory. It will append _INDENTED to the new directory or filenamexxx_INDENTED.extension. For example, paris.html becomes paris_INDENTED.html. It will then go through and properly format HTML or Coldfusion code for you so that an opening tag will be on it's own line, code nested in between the open and close tag will be tabbed in according to how many nested tags / indentations there need to be. The HTML Formatter will also tell by line number where certain tags are closed out of order and if certain tags are not properly opened or closed. It will also tell you if your code is perfect!

Let's say you drop a single Coldfusion file on HTML Formatter, it will make a copy of your code and put that new file in the same dir as the source file. It will go through and properly indent all the code under <CFIF>, <CFTRY>, etc statements so that the logic flow of the code can easily be understood...Without that indentation, it can be near impossible to determine where a container element begins and ends...the bigger the file, the more this program becomes a savior.

With it's support for Coldfusion, the HTML Formatter could be called the Coldfusion Beautifier or Coldfusion Code Beautifier.

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You control what files get processed and what tags should be indented by making simple changes to a text file.

If you are a web designer and programmer that has taken over code that isn't organized the way you want, is hard to read or determine the flow, this program is just what you need!

The HTML Formatter determines its formatting based on all relevant open and closing container tags being present. If they are not (meaning there are missing open or close tags), it will let you know how many are missing and what line numbers the HTML Formatter thinks they might be on. The HTML Formatter will NOT fill in your missing tags...it will tell you where they are most likely, though.

The HTML Formatter is the only program of its' kind...I went looking for something that would clean up the formatting of HTML and was not able to find anything. HTML Tidy may add missing tags but it will not actually make your code look nice and clean or easy to understand as you want to be able to do when dealing with nested tags or trying to determine the hierarchy of elements.

FYI, the HTML Formatter is a Windows only program...sorry Mac and Linux users!

Comments

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Hello, I bought your product yesterday and I am pleased with it. I have to parse HTML written (badly!) by others and update an Access database with extracted data. I use VB and find I can execute HTML Formatter in a VB program using from the command line. Like this: "C:\HTML Formatter\HTML_Formatter.exe" "C:MyFiles\Unformatted.html" Thank you.
— MF

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...html formatter with it's native CF support has done wonders for some of my more hurried code's readability.
— SB

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Wow- exactly what I needed thank you.
— RF

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Hell yes! This markup formatter cleaned up my code in seconds and I used someone’s 'send-to' idea and that makes things work awesome!
— JB

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Man, i sure could use this for some of my clients existing code- what a mess! Great program, i can't believe i haven't seen anything like it before. Im sold.
— FT

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Very Nice...One suggestion: after installing, I added "HTML_Formatter.exe" to my ‘Send To’ Menu - Works PERFECTLY!
— CT

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Thanks for this, I am starting to learn HTML and it will definately come in handy.
— JS