Formatting is mainly for readability
The formatter splits markup into tag-oriented lines and changes indentation as start and end tags are encountered. That is useful for code review and quick inspection of copied fragments.
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Add line breaks and indentation to compressed HTML.
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Turn one-line or compressed HTML into a tag-per-line layout with indentation that follows nesting. It is intended for quickly inspecting structure, not for rewriting the document semantically.
<main><h1>Hello</h1><p>Text</p></main> becomes easier to follow because h1 and p are visually nested under main instead of appearing in one continuous line.This is not a full HTML validator or repair engine. Invalid markup can still be invalid after it has been formatted.
The formatter splits markup into tag-oriented lines and changes indentation as start and end tags are encountered. That is useful for code review and quick inspection of copied fragments.
Elements such as img, br, meta and input normally do not have closing tags, so the formatter avoids treating them like ordinary container elements.
The goal is to clarify the surrounding HTML structure. JavaScript and CSS inside those elements are not parsed as if a dedicated JS or CSS formatter had been run.
Two compressed HTML snippets are hard to compare. Applying the same indentation rules first makes added, removed or moved tags much easier to spot.