HTML Formatter & Beautifier

Beautify, format and minify HTML instantly — free, private, runs in your browser

Input HTML
Formatted Output

How to Format HTML

1. Paste HTML

Copy any HTML — from a file, CMS output, email template, or browser DevTools — and paste into the input.

2. Choose options

Select indent size (2 spaces, 4 spaces, or tab). Optionally remove HTML comments or collapse empty lines.

3. Format or minify

Click Format to beautify with proper indentation. Click Minify to compress for production — removes whitespace and comments.

Common Use Cases

📧 Email Templates

HTML emails are often generated by tools and have no indentation. Beautify to edit them or understand their structure.

🌐 CMS Output

WordPress, Shopify, and other CMS platforms often output unformatted HTML. Format it for editing or debugging.

⚡ Production Minify

Minify HTML before deploying to reduce file size, remove developer comments, and improve page load speed.

🔍 Debugging

Hard-to-read HTML from a browser DevTools copy? Format it to understand tag nesting and find issues quickly.

Frequently Asked Questions

An HTML formatter adds consistent indentation and line breaks to HTML code, making the tag hierarchy easy to read. It shows visually how elements are nested — block elements on separate lines, child elements indented relative to parents.

Beautifying adds whitespace and newlines for human readability. Minifying removes all unnecessary whitespace, comments, and line breaks to produce the smallest HTML file — used in production to improve load speed.

Yes. All formatting runs in your browser — no data is sent to a server. Safe for internal templates, proprietary code, and staging site HTML.

Press Shift+Alt+F (Windows) or Shift+Option+F (Mac) to format the current file. Install the Prettier extension for consistent HTML formatting with configurable options like tab size and print width.

Use the html-minifier-terser package: npx html-minifier-terser --collapse-whitespace --remove-comments input.html. For build pipelines, integrate with Webpack or Vite.

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