Contemporary Solution for Formatting HTML in Notepad++

Asked Aug 26 '16 at 07:57

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It seems this should be a basic and comomon requirement, but after an hour of searching instead of getting on with the task I want to use it for, I can't find an effective solution for formatting HTML in Notepad++.

I've visited Formatting code in Notepad++ and How To Auto-Format / Indent XML/HTML in Notepad++ but

XML tools plugin - no good because it doesn't even align opening and closing head tags.
TextFX HTML Tidy - no good. Missing dll, link from menu to dll broken and all SO solutions involve putting the dll once found into plugins/config directory which my install doesn't have (Maybe I could create it, but I want an easier solution now)
Tidy2 - won't install

I'm using Windows 10 on a 64-bit machine. I love Notepad++ but this sucks. Please put me out of my misery.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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asked Aug 26 '16 at 07:57

Robin Andrews

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This question belongs on superuser, not stackoverflow or ask here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/ – mplungjan Aug 26 '16 at 08:00
OK, Tidy2 now installs. I've no idea what made it work. I installed and ununstalled several different plugins and then tried to install tidy2 and it worked. – Robin Andrews Aug 26 '16 at 09:09
However... Tidy2 breaks my HTML. Can't give details because it's a long webpage I downloaded - it just works before applying and not after.. – Robin Andrews Aug 26 '16 at 09:24
Does the page validate? – mplungjan Aug 26 '16 at 09:39
What do you mean by `... Tidy2 breaks my HTML`? – help-info.de Aug 28 '16 at 09:42

Contemporary Solution for Formatting HTML in Notepad++

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