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stoic
stoic

Reputation: 4830

Format HTML prior to serving the page

I am using ASP.NET-MVC, and would like to format my html prior to sending it to the browser.

I have one page with multiple partialviews, and i want it all to be indented nicely.

I know this is stupid, but while in development it's nice to have well formatted html when you go: RightClick -> View Source.

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 292

Answers (4)

Wyatt Barnett
Wyatt Barnett

Reputation: 15663

You can either inject code that gets executed every single request, with attendant risks or overhead. Or you could get better tools.

Upvotes: 0

davehauser
davehauser

Reputation: 5962

Have a look at this blog post: ASP.NET MVC clean HTML

I think it's exactly what you're looking for. The author uses ActionFilters and Tidy.NET to format the HTML output.

Upvotes: 2

BalusC
BalusC

Reputation: 1109570

In Java, there the HTML Tidy/JTidy is for. There are ports available in PHP and ASP.NET as well.

Upvotes: 0

Ray
Ray

Reputation: 21905

I don't know if this is possible - it certainly does not seem practical - it would be a lot of formatting work on every page when you will only occasionally use view source.

I would suggest selecting a different text editor to do your view source, and then use the editor's formatting tools to format the html. I use TextPad and while the html formatting isn't fabulous, it does help. I am sure there are other editors you could try for this.

Upvotes: 1

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