Adding whitespace to web page source so that I can read it.

Question

1. I'm curious about the web page I'm viewing.
2. I use the "view--page source" and get a window with the html.

3. I cut and paste this into notepad++.

4. I manually parse through adding whitespace to make it readable to me.

Is there a better way to do the last step? I'm hoping something has been written which automates this process, giving the user a readable version of the source file.

Thanks for any help.

-bill

Answer 1

Try HTML Tidy

Numerous editors have support for HTML Tidy (if you use an editor that knows about HTML, check the menus or documentation); alternatively, you can run HTML Tidy from the command line.

Answer 2

There is HtmlTidy, which works in Notepad++

http://tidy.sourceforge.net