CSSTidy is an

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

parser Parsing, syntax analysis, or syntactic analysis is the process of analyzing a string of symbols, either in natural language, computer languages or data structures, conforming to the rules of a formal grammar. The term ''parsing'' comes from Lati ...

and optimiser written by Florian Schmitz. C++ and

PHP PHP is a General-purpose programming language, general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementati ...

versions are available. The name derives from

HTML Tidy HTML Tidy is a console application for correcting invalid HyperText Markup Language (HTML), detecting potential web accessibility errors, and for improving the layout and indent style of the resulting markup. It is also a cross-platform library ...

, since CSSTidy is supposed to be its counterpart for CSS. Currently CSSTidy is able to fix some common errors (like missing units or semicolons) and reformat and compress CSS code. The current version of CSSTidy is 1.3. This version was noted in the changelog on July 19, 2007, as the last version. The project was abandoned and the author was seeking a new maintainer for the project. However, the PHP version has been forked by developers. For downloading the C++ version Florian Schmitz now links to a still maintained project on GitHub.

References

External links

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Online version
at CSSTidyOnline.com
Source code
at GitHub.com
HTML Purifier
Library for cleaning HTML (with a focus on security). Uses CSSTidy for CSS clean-up. Cascading Style Sheets {{web-software-stub