Re: Tidy HTML source?

On Mon, November 27, 2006 11:10 am, Mark Kelly wrote: > In the stuff I do almost all the HTML is generated with PHP as > basically > none of it is static (lots of tabular data, state-sensitive links, > stuff > like that). > > Am I crazy to make an extra effort in my code to make the generated > HTML > pretty? By this I mean linebreaks, indentation etc. - stuff that is > aimed > at readability rather than correctness. This is obviously above and > beyond > simply making sure it validates. It's not a huge burden by any means, > but > it *is* extra effort. > > What do you guys do? If you are laying out your PHP and HTML correctly, decent readability is not that difficult. I don't sweat it when PHP "eats" a newline or tab for the first/last element in a series (LI or TR or TD or...) But I'd go *nuts* if "View Source" was all wonky. Just because it validates doesn't mean you actually have the layout/content that you want. :-) And not being able to read your own HTML source will bite you in the butt eventually. I do wish that I had more control over the various "pretty" printing tools for "View Source" so I could get the HTML to be indented the way I want it... A simple "diff" between actual HTML output and prettied up HTML from, say, Tidy, would be pretty nifty -- I probably could have saved myself 10 hours a month, on average, in the past 10 years if I had that... :-) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?