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HTML Formatter & Validator

Beautify or minify HTML markup instantly, with customizable indentation, attribute formatting, and file-size compression stats.

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Drop HTML file to import Processed 100% locally in your browser
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HTML Formatting, Minification & Structural Diagnostics

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What HTML Formatting Does

Beautifying reprints your markup with consistent indentation, attribute wrapping, and readable nesting. Minifying collapses safe whitespace and optional comments so transfer size drops. Script, style, pre, and textarea contents are left intact so JavaScript, CSS, and significant whitespace are not rewritten.

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Structural Diagnostics Are Not W3C Validation

A Valid status means the tokenizer accepted the document and tags balanced. That is not a WHATWG/W3C conformance check. Browsers recover from many HTML errors, so this workspace reports unclosed tags, mismatched closers, malformed comments, unclosed quotes, and duplicate IDs as diagnostics rather than claiming a full standards validator is running.

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Safe Preview

Safe Preview renders a visual snapshot inside a sandboxed iframe with scripts, same-origin access, and inline event handlers blocked. It is a layout check, not a live page.

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100% Browser-Local Processing

Paste, upload, format, minify, copy, and download never leave this page. Companion tools include the <a href="/json-formatter" class="text-brandBlue-400 hover:underline font-semibold">JSON Formatter</a>, <a href="/xml-formatter" class="text-brandBlue-400 hover:underline font-semibold">XML Formatter</a>, <a href="/css-minifier" class="text-brandBlue-400 hover:underline font-semibold">CSS Formatter</a>, and <a href="/javascript-minifier" class="text-brandBlue-400 hover:underline font-semibold">JavaScript Minifier</a>.

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Questions, answered

Quick answers about how this tool works.

No. Paste, upload, drag-and-drop, format, minify, copy, and download all run in your browser. Nothing is logged remotely.

No. Valid means the local parser could tokenize the markup and did not find unclosed tags, mismatched closers, broken comments, or duplicate IDs. It is not a W3C/WHATWG schema validator.

No. Content inside script, style, pre, and textarea is preserved. The formatter does not execute scripts and does not reindent those blocks.

Preview uses a sandboxed iframe with an empty sandbox attribute, so scripts, forms, popups, and same-origin access are blocked. Inline event handlers cannot run. Treat it as a visual snapshot only.

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