HTML cleanup tool & simplifier

HTML Washer is a tool which reduces a HTML document (or fragment) to basic HTML tags and attributes – clean HTML
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What exactly does it do?

  • Fixes malformed HTML (unclosed tags, invalid nesting)
  • Reduces the markup to: <html lang>, <head>, <meta charset name content>, <title>, <body>, <p>, <a href title target>, <strong>, <em>, <br>, <ul>, <ol>, <li>, <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>, <img src alt width height>, <table>, <thead>, <tbody>, <tr>, <th colspan rowspan>, <td colspan rowspan>
  • Replaces: <b> to <strong>, <i> to <em>
  • Reformats the HTML (line breaks, indents)
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