Thread: Where did Tidy HTML go?
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Old 09-22-2016, 09:21 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Tidy's been gone since version 0.8.900. The gumbo parser that replaced it doesn't eat code, so it's not destructive. The best settings are to leave both options (open and save) for "Mend XHTML Source Code On" checked in the preferences. When you want to "Pretty Print" your code, use the Prettify feature Notjohn described. There's no more automatic Pretty-Pretting. You do it yourself - manually - whenever you're ready.
Thanks Diap. I remember back in the old days, one of those choices (I think it was Tidy) was nasty and could really muck things up.

So the

Tools>Reformat HTML>Mend all HTML files

is the nasty one to be avoided now?

And the Mend and Prettify All HTML files just makes nice on the little stuff?
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