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- <h1>Tidy</h1>
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- <div id="filing">Filed under Development</div>
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- <div id="home"><a href="http://htmlpurifier.org/">HTML Purifier</a> End-User Documentation</div>
-
- <p>You've probably heard of HTML Tidy, Dave Raggett's little piece
- of software that cleans up poorly written HTML. Let me say it straight
- out:</p>
-
- <p class="emphasis">This ain't HTML Tidy!</p>
-
- <p>Rather, Tidy stands for a cool set of Tidy-inspired features in HTML Purifier
- that allows users to submit deprecated elements and attributes and get
- valid strict markup back. For example:</p>
-
- <pre><center>Centered</center></pre>
-
- <p>...becomes:</p>
-
- <pre><div style="text-align:center;">Centered</div></pre>
-
- <p>...when this particular fix is run on the HTML. This tutorial will give
- you the lowdown of what exactly HTML Purifier will do when Tidy
- is on, and how to fine-tune this behavior. Once again, <strong>you do
- not need Tidy installed on your PHP to use these features!</strong></p>
-
- <h2>What does it do?</h2>
-
- <p>Tidy will do several things to your HTML:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>Convert deprecated elements and attributes to standards-compliant
- alternatives</li>
- <li>Enforce XHTML compatibility guidelines and other best practices</li>
- <li>Preserve data that would normally be removed as per W3C</li>
- </ul>
-
- <h2>What are levels?</h2>
-
- <p>Levels describe how aggressive the Tidy module should be when
- cleaning up HTML. There are four levels to pick: none, light, medium
- and heavy. Each of these levels has a well-defined set of behavior
- associated with it, although it may change depending on your doctype.</p>
-
- <dl>
- <dt>light</dt>
- <dd>This is the <strong>lenient</strong> level. If a tag or attribute
- is about to be removed because it isn't supported by the
- doctype, Tidy will step in and change into an alternative that
- is supported.</dd>
- <dt>medium</dt>
- <dd>This is the <strong>correctional</strong> level. At this level,
- all the functions of light are performed, as well as some extra,
- non-essential best practices enforcement. Changes made on this
- level are very benign and are unlikely to cause problems.</dd>
- <dt>heavy</dt>
- <dd>This is the <strong>aggressive</strong> level. If a tag or
- attribute is deprecated, it will be converted into a non-deprecated
- version, no ifs ands or buts.</dd>
- </dl>
-
- <p>By default, Tidy operates on the <strong>medium</strong> level. You can
- change the level of cleaning by setting the %HTML.TidyLevel configuration
- directive:</p>
-
- <pre>$config->set('HTML.TidyLevel', 'heavy'); // burn baby burn!</pre>
-
- <h2>Is the light level really light?</h2>
-
- <p>It depends on what doctype you're using. If your documents are HTML
- 4.01 <em>Transitional</em>, HTML Purifier will be lazy
- and won't clean up your <code>center</code>
- or <code>font</code> tags. But if you're using HTML 4.01 <em>Strict</em>,
- HTML Purifier has no choice: it has to convert them, or they will
- be nuked out of existence. So while light on Transitional will result
- in little to no changes, light on Strict will still result in quite
- a lot of fixes.</p>
-
- <p>This is different behavior from 1.6 or before, where deprecated
- tags in transitional documents would
- always be cleaned up regardless. This is also better behavior.</p>
-
- <h2>My pages look different!</h2>
-
- <p>HTML Purifier is tasked with converting deprecated tags and
- attributes to standards-compliant alternatives, which usually
- need copious amounts of CSS. It's also not foolproof: sometimes
- things do get lost in the translation. This is why when HTML Purifier
- can get away with not doing cleaning, it won't; this is why
- the default value is <strong>medium</strong> and not heavy.</p>
-
- <p>Fortunately, only a few attributes have problems with the switch
- over. They are described below:</p>
-
- <table class="table">
- <thead><tr>
- <th>Element@Attr</th>
- <th>Changes</th>
- </tr></thead>
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td>caption@align</td>
- <td>Firefox supports stuffing the caption on the
- left and right side of the table, a feature that
- Internet Explorer, understandably, does not have.
- When align equals right or left, the text will simply
- be aligned on the left or right side.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>img@align</td>
- <td>The implementation for align bottom is good, but not
- perfect. There are a few pixel differences.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>br@clear</td>
- <td>Clear both gets a little wonky in Internet Explorer. Haven't
- really been able to figure out why.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>hr@noshade</td>
- <td>All browsers implement this slightly differently: we've
- chosen to make noshade horizontal rules gray.</td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <p>There are a few more minor, although irritating, bugs.
- Some older browsers support deprecated attributes,
- but not CSS. Transformed elements and attributes will look unstyled
- to said browsers. Also, CSS precedence is slightly different for
- inline styles versus presentational markup. In increasing precedence:</p>
-
- <ol>
- <li>Presentational attributes</li>
- <li>External style sheets</li>
- <li>Inline styling</li>
- </ol>
-
- <p>This means that styling that may have been masked by external CSS
- declarations will start showing up (a good thing, perhaps). Finally,
- if you've turned off the style attribute, almost all of
- these transformations will not work. Sorry mates.</p>
-
- <p>You can review the rendering before and after of these transformations
- by consulting the <a
- href="http://htmlpurifier.org/live/smoketests/attrTransform.php">attrTransform.php
- smoketest</a>.</p>
-
- <h2>I like the general idea, but the specifics bug me!</h2>
-
- <p>So you want HTML Purifier to clean up your HTML, but you're not
- so happy about the br@clear implementation. That's perfectly fine!
- HTML Purifier will make accomodations:</p>
-
- <pre>$config->set('HTML.Doctype', 'XHTML 1.0 Transitional');
- $config->set('HTML.TidyLevel', 'heavy'); // all changes, minus...
- <strong>$config->set('HTML.TidyRemove', 'br@clear');</strong></pre>
-
- <p>That third line does the magic, removing the br@clear fix
- from the module, ensuring that <code><br clear="both" /></code>
- will pass through unharmed. The reverse is possible too:</p>
-
- <pre>$config->set('HTML.Doctype', 'XHTML 1.0 Transitional');
- $config->set('HTML.TidyLevel', 'none'); // no changes, plus...
- <strong>$config->set('HTML.TidyAdd', 'p@align');</strong></pre>
-
- <p>In this case, all transformations are shut off, except for the p@align
- one, which you found handy.</p>
-
- <p>To find out what the names of fixes you want to turn on or off are,
- you'll have to consult the source code, specifically the files in
- <code>HTMLPurifier/HTMLModule/Tidy/</code>. There is, however, a
- general syntax:</p>
-
- <table class="table">
- <thead>
- <tr>
- <th>Name</th>
- <th>Example</th>
- <th>Interpretation</th>
- </tr>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td>element</td>
- <td>font</td>
- <td>Tag transform for <em>element</em></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>element@attr</td>
- <td>br@clear</td>
- <td>Attribute transform for <em>attr</em> on <em>element</em></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>@attr</td>
- <td>@lang</td>
- <td>Global attribute transform for <em>attr</em></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>e#content_model_type</td>
- <td>blockquote#content_model_type</td>
- <td>Change of child processing implementation for <em>e</em></td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
-
- <h2>So... what's the lowdown?</h2>
-
- <p>The lowdown is, quite frankly, HTML Purifier's default settings are
- probably good enough. The next step is to bump the level up to heavy,
- and if that still doesn't satisfy your appetite, do some fine-tuning.
- Other than that, don't worry about it: this all works silently and
- effectively in the background.</p>
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