[wp-hackers] Outputting Clean Well Indented and Readable X/HTML

[Kevin Newman]

Personally, I don't concern myself with clean output, and prefer it be 
as small and tight as possible for reduced payload size.

Every major browser now comes with tools (or have them available) that 
show you a live collapsible view of the HTML - very rarely do I ever 
need to look and see what the raw html looks like since I spend my time 
looking at these tools - even then though, you can get the HTML of a 
selection pretty easily, which reduces the amount of HTML you need to 
sift through enough that it can be pretty messy, and you'll do fine.

The thought of going back 5 years to a time when firebug didn't exist, 
is enough to give me nightmares.

Kevin N.


On 3/7/11 3:34 PM, Alex Andrews wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Looking at the raw HTML for a site I'm working for, its really
> horribly formatted. There is just so much unnecessary whitespace and
> bad indenting. It makes it very difficult to work out what is going
> on, and occasionally what is going wrong.
>
> How do other people cope with this? I know there are a few plugins,
> but they don't seem to format HTML 5 well. HTML Tidy module for PHP is
> unavailable on my server. How can one:
>
> 1. Use plugins to make HTML output from Wordpress look best.
> 2. Have best practices for programming PHP in Wordpress to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
> All the best.
>
> Alex
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