HTML Cleaner

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HTML Cleaner removes superfluous white space, quotes, comments, and end tags from HTML documents. The result will render identically in a web browser, but is typically 15-20% smaller than the original file. This reduces download time, web page responsiveness, and web server storage demands.

Optionally, HTML Cleaner can also remove images, styles, scripts, and active content from HTML documents. Use this if you want to test your HTML document's behaviour in situations where image downloads are switched off or not applicable (text-only browsers, screen readers), style sheets are not supported, or active content is disabled.

How to use it

The current version of HTML Cleaner is a Win32 command line application. You will normally use it as a post-processing step, after editing has finished but before the HTML documents are uploaded to the web server.

HTML Cleaner can process subdirectories recursively and will automatically create a matching output directory tree when it does. For example:

    hclean /suz /o:\\webserv\pub\www *.htm *.css

This command will clean up all .htm and .css files in the current directory and below, and place the output files in an identical directory tree starting at \\webserv\pub\www. Assuming that this is the upload point for your web site, this takes care of most of your web site publishing needs as well, while leaving your original files intact.

Furthermore, only new or modified files will be processed, thus reducing overall processing time and avoiding unnecessary uploads.

For a detailed syntax description with examples, see the HTML Cleaner manual page.