{"id":4946,"date":"2010-09-25T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T19:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2016-12-31T02:24:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T01:24:55","slug":"installing-a-current-version-of-htmltidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/2010\/09\/25\/installing-a-current-version-of-htmltidy\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing a current version of HTMLTidy"},"content":{"rendered":"

HTMLTidy is an open source utility for tidying up HTML. It is a command-line utility which is included in OS X. It is also used in my Plug-in for Coda<\/a>. But Apple decided to include a quite old version (from 2006) – even in the current OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).<\/p>\n

Since HTMLTidy has got some quite useful new features in the latest versions (like “preserve-entities<\/kbd>“) and some bugfixes, this post explains how to install an updated version of HTMLTidy and how to use this with the Coda plug-in.<\/p>\n

There are three different ways to accomplish this: You can try the binary I included here for download or use MacPorts or you can update by compiling your own version:<\/p>\n

Method 1 – Downloading the binary (Use only if you’re afraid of the Terminal)<\/h4>\n
    \n
  1. Download this zip file »<\/a> and unpack it.<\/li>\n
  2. Copy the extracted file to your “Applications”-folder *<\/li>\n
  3. Now the new version can be found in \/Applications\/tidy<\/kbd><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course “\/Applications” is not a very good location for a command line utility, but this is only for people who do not want to use the Terminal..<\/p>\n

    Method 2 – Using MacPorts<\/h4>\n

    If you already use MacPorts that’s the most easy solution.<\/p>\n

    Open the terminal and enter this<\/p>\n

    sudo port install tidy<\/code><\/p>\n

    After MacPorts has downloaded and compiled the current version, you can find it in \/opt\/local\/bin\/tidy<\/kbd>. (If you haven’t set up MacPorts to use another path)<\/p>\n

    Method 3 – Compiling a new version<\/h4>\n

    If you know how to use the Terminal and navigate there, try this (in the Terminal):<\/p>\n

    \r\ncd \/tmp\r\ncvs -d:pserver:anonymous@tidy.cvs.sourceforge.net:\/cvsroot\/tidy login\r\n<\/pre>\n
    Now you are asked for a password: Simply press return<\/p>\n
    \r\ncvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@tidy.cvs.sourceforge.net:\/cvsroot\/tidy co -P tidy\r\ncd tidy\/\r\nsh .\/build\/gnuauto\/setup.sh\r\n.\/configure --prefix=\/usr\/local\/\r\nmake\r\nsudo make install\r\n<\/pre>\n
    Here you’ve got to enter your OS X password once.<\/p>\n
    Now the updated version can be found in \/usr\/local\/bin\/tidy<\/kbd><\/p>\n
    Configuring the Coda Plugin<\/h4>\n
    Depending on which of the three methods you used, the new location for tidy is \/Applications\/tidy<\/kbd> or \/opt\/local\/bin\/tidy<\/kbd> or \/usr\/local\/bin\/tidy<\/kbd>.<\/p>\n
    Now in Coda open “Plug-ins” ->”PHP & Web Toolkit” -> “Preferences” and copy this location to the field “Tidy binary”. That’s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    HTMLTidy is an open source utility for tidying up HTML. It is a command-line utility which is included in OS X. It is also used in my Plug-in for Coda. But Apple decided to include a quite old version (from 2006) – even in the current OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coda","category-osx","tag-osx"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPEN-1hM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chipwreck.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}