Bring html to normal form. Text alignment

Do you love your CSS code as much as I do? If so, then, of course, strive to ensure that he not only behaves and feels good, but also looks nice.
I hope that the tools described below will help your code get closer to ideal.

1.Styleneat

Probably the simplest service presented in the review.
The tool doesn't have many options:
  • Sort properties alphabetically
  • Sorting selectors alphabetically (if “Safe Organize” is checked, this option is not available)
  • Ability to choose formatting style: multi-line or single line
  • Can pull CSS files connected using import into the main file and process them mercilessly
  • You can submit code for processing using: a text field, uploading a file, or providing a link to CSS
  • The result can be obtained as CSS code or upload a file

2.FormatCSS



Despite its menacing appearance, the instrument copes well with its functions, of which it has plenty.
You can configure a lot:
  • placement of spaces/tabs/new lines,
  • sorting properties and selector names,
  • converting property names and selectors to lower case, etc.
What I particularly liked about this service: the ability to format subrules with a “ladder” (I find this a very convenient way to organize styles).

3. CleanCSS



A fairly powerful tool that provides us with many possibilities:
  • You can feed CSS by copy-pasting in the “CSS-Code” field or as a link to the style file
  • You can get the result as text or as a file.
  • The user has 4 types of source formatting to choose from: the code can be optimized for the smallest size or, conversely, for better readability. It is possible to set a formatting template in the “Custom template” field
  • Able to combine rules and reduce property records to a short form
  • If necessary, remove comments and invalid definitions
  • Like the services described above, it will happily sort whatever your heart desires alphabetically and convert it to lower/upper case
By the way, this service is based on the “ ” engine.- open source CSS parser/optimizer. So, everyone can freely depict their own beauty on its base, with blackjack and switches.
UPD> In the comments they suggested a link to the twin of this service: CodeBeautifier. The set of functions is almost identical to CleanCSS (the service also runs on CSSTidy).

4. ProCSSor



In my experienced opinion, it is the most convenient of all presented in this review.
The service greets the user with a pleasant interface and very clear pop-up tips that allow you to quickly understand the settings.
Like any self-respecting beautifier, ProCSSor will accept the code from us in the input field, in the form of a file or link. It will send the result to the browser and display a link to download the file.
The tool has enough settings to please almost any user; listing them doesn’t make much sense - it’s better to try it right away.
A nice feature of the service is ability to save your settings, so that next time you can skip the settings step and go straight to the refining process.
Another attraction - ProCSSor provides an API, the documentation can be found here:

Using formatting tags, you can highlight semantically important text on pages, create “handwriting” text, insert superscript and subscript characters into HTML documents, and increase and decrease font size.

What is semantics?

Semantics in HTML is the practice of providing meaning and structure to the content of a document using an appropriate tag. Semantic code describes the meaning of a document's content, regardless of its style or appearance. There are several benefits of using semantic elements:

  1. semantic code directly affects the amount of HTML code. The less code, the “lighter” the document, which means web pages load faster and less RAM is required on the user’s side. The site becomes faster and less expensive.
  2. computers, screen readers for whom tags and their attributes are important, adequately read and understand the content of a web page.
  3. semantic code all other things being equal, will appear higher in search engine results than a page with non-semantic code.

Bold text

To make the text bold and draw attention to it, we will use an inline element . There are two tags that can be used to make text bold: tags And . It is important to understand the semantic difference between them.

Tag semantically used to give more importance to text and is thus the most popular option for bold text. Tag , on the other hand, semantically means stylistic emphasis on text, which is not always the best choice for noteworthy text. You must evaluate the significance of the text for which you want to set the boldness and select the appropriate tag. Even though browsers display them exactly the same, search engines may give them different meaning when parsing the page.

HTML code with tags And :

Attention: steep descent.

These are the recipes Olivier And vinaigrette.

Example: important and bold text

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Attention: steep descent. These are the recipes Olivier And vinaigrette.

Attention: steep descent.

These are the recipes Olivier And vinaigrette.

Italic text

For italic text, which thereby places emphasis, we will use an inline element . As with the bold text tags, there are two different tags that set italic text, each with their own semantic meaning.

Tag used to emphasize a piece of text - this is the most popular option for italics. Another option is to use the tag , which is used simply to create italic text.

HTML code with tags And :

I I love Motherland!

Name Victoria means victory.

Tags And

Tag Decreases the font size by one compared to normal text. In HTML, font size is measured in arbitrary units from 1 to 7, the average default text size is 3. Thus, adding a tag reduces the text by one conventional unit. Tag on the contrary, it increases the font size by one compared to normal text.

HTML code with tags And :

This is normal text.

This is text with smaller letters.

This is text with capital letters.

Example: reduced and enlarged font

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This is normal text.

This is text with smaller letters.

This is text with capital letters.

HTML tag

Tag used to highlight or highlight text because of its relevance in context. A good example is highlighting a word that the user searched for in a document. Typically in browsers the background color of the text inside the container is highlighted in yellow like an ink marker.

HTML tag

Tag used to highlight text that has been removed in a new version of the document. This formatting allows you to track what changes have been made to the revised text of the document. Browsers typically mark text within a container like crossed out .

HTML tag

Tag is intended to highlight text that has been added to a new version of the document. This formatting allows you to track what piece of content was added when the document was last updated. Browsers typically mark text within a container .

HTML tag

Tag displays text in subscript. The text is located below the baseline of the remaining characters of the line and is of reduced size. Such text can be used in practice, for example, to write various formulas in subscript .

HTML tag

Tag displays text in superscript. The text appears smaller and higher than the baseline of the rest of the characters in the line. Such text can be used in practice, for example, to write various formulas or footnotes in superscript .

Line breaks and horizontal lines

Tag
(line translation)

As you have seen before, the tag

Allows you to logically and physically separate one paragraph of text from another, but what if you need to move text inside a paragraph to a new line? A single tag is designed specifically for these purposes.
. One of the visible differences between this tag and

Is the absence of indentation after and before the tag
. This allows adjacent lines of text to be placed closer to each other. The ability to independently determine the location of the transfer can be useful when recording poetry or for separating various elements in a document. Add an element
on any line where you want to break the flow of text and insert a line break.

Tag
(horizontal line)

Horizontal lines allow you to divide long, formally open-ended text into separate subsections. Horizontal lines in a web document play the same role as ornamental stripes in printed publications. A single tag is used to insert a horizontal line


. This block single tag allows you to insert a horizontal bar whose width is either the entire width of the container in which the tag is nested, or the width of the browser window.

Example: line breaks and horizontal lines

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These lines are separated from each other using a paragraph (p):

This is the first paragraph.

This is the second paragraph.

This is the line:


These lines are separated from each other using the br tag:
Our Tanya is crying loudly
Dropped a ball into the river

HTML code with tags , , , , :

The text contains the word: luck.

Word trouble has been removed from the text.

Word victory has been added to the text.

Water formula: N 2 O.

Wind speed: 20m 3/sec.

Example: Text Formatting

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There is a word in the text: luck. The word trouble has been removed from the text. The word has been added to the text. Water formula: H 2 O. Wind speed: 20m 3 /sec.

The text contains the word: luck.

Word trouble has been removed from the text.

Word victory has been added to the text.

Water formula: N 2 O.

Wind speed: 20m 3/sec.

Tasks

Final task

In this lesson, you learned about elements designed to mark small phrases and individual words. Particular attention was paid to the logical layout of the text using tags to indicate the importance of a word or phrase, and not just visual formatting.

It's time to review what you've learned and complete five simple tasks:

Semantically strong word

  • Decide for yourself"

Highlight the word “professional” in bold, thereby indicating the special semantic importance of this word.

Semantically strong word

You must become a professional in your field



Semantically strong word

You must become professional your business



Emphasis on the word

  • Decide for yourself"

Emphasize the word "full." In this case, visually this word should be displayed in italics.

HTML Beautifier & Formatter

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HTML Formatter

Enter your messy, minified, or obfuscated HTML into the field above to have it cleaned up and made pretty. The editor above also contains helpful line numbers and syntax highlighting. There are many options to tailor the beautifier to your personal formatting tastes.

When do you use HTML Viewer, HTML Formatter, HTML Formatter

Often when writing HTML your indentation, spacing, and other formatting can become a bit disorganized. It is also common for multiple developers to work on a single project who have different formatting techniques. This tool is helpful for making the formatting of a file consistent. It is also common for HTML to be minified or obfuscated. You can use this tool to make that code look pretty and readable so it is easier to edit.

Examples

The minified HTML below:

Becomes this beautified:

Until now, we have aligned elements only to the left. More precisely, you and I didn’t do this at all, and the browser itself aligns elements to the left by default. Of course, it would be too boring to align everything to the left. Therefore, there are different ways to center and right align.

Alignment of elements is something you just need to know when doing this. The first thing you need to do is type a simple page.

Once upon a time there was a tag

I don’t advise you to use it now, due to the availability of more modern methods, but I can’t help but mention it. It is very, very simple to use. Everything you need to be centered, you place inside this tag. For example, here we align the 1st level heading to the center.



You can add a picture, also aligned to the center, let's also move to the next line using the tag
:


1st level heading, center aligned




It was a tag

, which is already outdated, in addition, contrary to your expectations of tags And simply doesn't exist. Let's say left aligned by default, center aligned using tag
, but what about the right one?

To solve this problem, the developers came up with a universal way to align elements HTML. The method is to use so-called containers, which are created using the tag

. That is, everything that needs to be placed in a specific container is placed inside the tag
. And this tag already has the attribute " align", the value of which determines the position of this container. There are three values: " left", "center", "right". By default, it is " left“However, I think that this does not surprise you.

Let's write the same one now HTML code, but using containers, in addition, let's align not to the center, but to the right.





As you can see, everything works. I advise you to also change the values ​​of the attribute " align" to look at other types of container content alignment.

Another way to align elements HTML- these are tables, but this topic deserves a separate discussion, so we’ll talk about it in one of the following articles.

For now, your page should look like this:






1st level heading, center aligned






1st level heading, right aligned








Sincerely, Mikhail Rusakov.

P.S. If you want to know more about HTML, then take a look at my free course with an example of creating a website at HTML:

Sometimes our code is not always perfect. And I really want it to be not only functional, but also beautifully designed and formatted. Time is our main enemy; it rarely allows us to follow the rules of code design. We try to quickly finish the layout, or describe a dozen CSS styles, and we do this at the expense of readability. In this article, I will provide a list of services that will help you format your code so that it is pleasant to look at.

Should you trust the program or do everything manually?

Surely you have a question: how to make the code readable? Can a program correctly arrange all the indents and line breaks so that the human eye receives only aesthetic pleasure from viewing the code? Of course it can! Don’t be mistaken that since a robot is essentially doing the work for you, it will be done “dirty.” The services that will be presented in the article below have saved me more than once. For example, in situations where it was necessary to copy the same html code from another site, and when pasting the tags, they were simply placed in some chaotic order along the lines: a lot of tabs, non-logical line breaks, absolutely no nesting was visible! This is probably familiar to many. And I really want your website to look different: neat and easy to read. After all, first of all, we do this for ourselves, for the convenience of further support of this or that code.

Let's format your code

Less words, more action. As practice has shown, formatting code online is quite simple. All you need to do is copy your dirty code and paste it into the special text fields on one of the specified sites. Then press the button, wait a little and - voila! You get beautiful, formatted and easy to read code.

Here is a list of all the code "purifiers" I know of for various languages.




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