formatting HTML code

[David Schwartz 426]

This site https://htmlformatter.com/ does an awesome job of taking a huge glom of unformatted HTML and pretty-printing it so it's super-readable.

 

Are there any components that can do that in Delphi?

 

You'd give it a string or stringstream, and it formats it into another string or stringstream or TStringList (eg., a TMemo)

 

All I can find in Google is how to format Delphi (pascal) code.

[Kryvich 165]

I think most of these online formatters use HTML Tidy internally. 

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

What about the https://www.delphihtmlcomponents.com/ from @Alexander Sviridenkov ?

I don't use them, but I've seen them getting a lot of praise.

[Alexander Sviridenkov 356]

Currently library supports formatting only for XML or XHTML. HTML formatter is expected in next version.

[aehimself 396]

Do you need parsing too, or only to beautify the code? I wrote a unit which beautifies and simplifies (remove idents and formatting to reduce size) XML documents and it's using only string helper functions. It formats a ~14 MB XML file in about 300ms, however this heavily depends on the amount of tags.

Since the structure is very close I suppose it can work with HTML.

 

If you don't want to use components / libraries let me know, I can send you the code.

[David Schwartz 426]

Thanks, but my time is exhausted on this. It wasn't worth the trouble to automate ... faster to just eyeball the results.