Re: Problem tidying.

* Matthew Stanfield [Wed, 11/06/2003 at 15:41 +0100]
> 
> >>The problem is that a form is started in a table after the first <tr> but 
> >>before that <tr>'s first <td>. Hence the following errors and warning.
> >
> >
> >>How can I make this get tidied. -- I am stuck!!
> >
> >
> >Move <form> to precede <table> and </form> to follow </table>
> 
> Thanks. I just worked this out a few minutes before your email arrived, but 
> my problem is that I need to Tidy a lot of these pages - too many to do 
> manually. Does anyone know how I can get HTML Tidy to tidy this without 
> having to change it manually? What options could I use? Or, since I don't 
> actually need any of the data in the forms, how I can remove them? Any 
> other ideas?
If your tags are on the same line, use sed
sed s!<table><form>!<form><table>!g
else use awk.
You can even remove the breakline between end and begin tags and use
sed.
It is a bit "brute force", but it should work.

Jany

Received on Wednesday, 11 June 2003 11:18:06 UTC