Re: [PHP] 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
*** 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...
:-)

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