This is a Sublime Text 2 and 3 plugin allowing you to format your HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JSON code. It uses a set of nice beautifier scripts made by Einar Lielmanis. The formatters are written in JavaScript, so you'll need something (node.js) to interpret JavaScript code outside the browser.
This will work with either HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JSON files.
First of all, be sure you have node.js installed in order to run the beautifier. After you've installed node.js, you will need to setup this plugin.
Each OS has a different Packages
folder required by Sublime Text. Open it via Preferences -> Browse Packages, and copy this repository contents to the Sublime-HTMLPrettify
folder there.
The shorter way of doing this is:
Through Sublime Package Manager
Ctrl+Shift+P
orCmd+Shift+P
in Linux/Windows/OS X- type
install
, selectPackage Control: Install Package
- type
prettify
, selectHTML-CSS-JS Prettify
Make sure you use the right Sublime Text folder. For example, on OS X, packages for version 2 are in ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2
, while version 3 is labeled ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3
.
These are for Sublime Text 3:
git clone https://github.com/victorporof/Sublime-HTMLPrettify.git ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3/Packages/Sublime-HTMLPrettify
git clone https://github.com/victorporof/Sublime-HTMLPrettify.git ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/Sublime-HTMLPrettify
git clone https://github.com/victorporof/Sublime-HTMLPrettify.git %APPDATA%/Sublime\ Text\ 3/Packages/Sublime-HTMLPrettify
Tools -> Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P
or Ctrl+Shift+P
) and type htmlprettify
.
-- or --
Ctrl+Shift+H
(or Cmd+Shift+H
if you're on a Mac).
-- or --
Right click in the current buffer and select HTML/CSS/JS Prettify
-> Prettify Code
.
-- or --
Open a HTML, CSS or JavaScript file, pop out the console in Sublime Text from View -> Show Console, and type view.run_command("htmlprettify")
.
Writing commands in the console is ugly. Set up your own key combo for this, by going to Preferences -> Key Bindings - User, and adding a command in that array: { "keys": ["super+shift+h"], "command": "htmlprettify" }
. You can use any other command you want, thought most of them are already taken.
If you get an error sh: node: command not found
or similar, you don't have node
in the right path. Try setting the absolute path to node in HTMLPrettify.sublime-settings
.
Ctrl+Shift+P
orCmd+Shift+P
in Linux/Windows/OS X- type
htmlprettify
, selectSet node Path
Simply using node
without specifying a path sometimes doesn't work :(
For example, on Linux the path could be in /home/<user>/.nvm/<node version>/bin/node
.
On Windows, the absolute path to node.exe must use forward slashes. Must include nodejs.exe, like so: C:/Program Files (x86)/Nodejs/node.exe
Depending on your distribution and default package sources, apt-get install node
(for example) will not install node.js, contrary to all human common sense and popular belief. You want nodejs
instead. Best thing is to make it yourself from http://nodejs.org/#download.
To beautify your code when saving the document, set the format_on_save
setting to true
in HTMLPrettify.sublime-settings
:
Ctrl+Shift+P
orCmd+Shift+P
in Linux/Windows/OS X- type
htmlprettify
, selectSet Plugin Options
To stop beautifying only the selected text, set the format_selection_only
setting to false
in HTMLPrettify.sublime-settings
.
Parts of code that shouldn't be formatted can be ignored with beautify preserve
and beautify ignore
directive comments. This allows you to tell the beautifier to preserve the formtatting of or completely ignore part of a file. The example inputs below will remain changed after beautification.
Use preserve
when the content is javascript, but you don't want it reformatted.
/* beautify preserve:start */
{
browserName: 'internet explorer',
platform: 'Windows 7',
version: '8'
}
/* beautify preserve:end */
Use ignore
when the content is not parsable as javascript.
var a = 1;
/* beautify ignore:start */
{This is some strange{template language{using open-braces?
/* beautify ignore:end */
The plugin looks for a .jsbeautifyrc
file in the following directories:
- The same directory as the source file you're prettifying.
- The source file's parent directories.
- Your home folder.
- Your personal Sublime settings folder.
When one is found, it stops searching, and it uses those options along with the default ones. Here's an example of how it can look like.
These are the default options used by this plugin:
{
// Details: https://github.com/victorporof/Sublime-HTMLPrettify#using-your-own-jsbeautifyrc-options
// Documentation: https://github.com/einars/js-beautify/
"html": {
"allowed_file_extensions": ["htm", "html", "xhtml", "shtml", "xml", "svg"],
"brace_style": "collapse", // [collapse|expand|end-expand|none] Put braces on the same line as control statements (default), or put braces on own line (Allman / ANSI style), or just put end braces on own line, or attempt to keep them where they are
"end_with_newline": false, // End output with newline
"indent_char": " ", // Indentation character
"indent_handlebars": false, // e.g. {{#foo}}, {{/foo}}
"indent_inner_html": false, // Indent <head> and <body> sections
"indent_scripts": "keep", // [keep|separate|normal]
"indent_size": 4, // Indentation size
"max_preserve_newlines": 0, // Maximum number of line breaks to be preserved in one chunk (0 disables)
"preserve_newlines": true, // Whether existing line breaks before elements should be preserved (only works before elements, not inside tags or for text)
"unformatted": ["a", "span", "img", "code", "pre", "sub", "sup", "em", "strong", "b", "i", "u", "strike", "big", "small", "pre", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6"], // List of tags that should not be reformatted
"wrap_line_length": 0 // Lines should wrap at next opportunity after this number of characters (0 disables)
},
"css": {
"allowed_file_extensions": ["css", "scss", "sass", "less"],
"end_with_newline": false, // End output with newline
"indent_char": " ", // Indentation character
"indent_size": 4, // Indentation size
"newline_between_rules": true, // Add a new line after every css rule
"selector_separator": " ",
"selector_separator_newline": true // Separate selectors with newline or not (e.g. "a,\nbr" or "a, br")
},
"js": {
"allowed_file_extensions": ["js", "json", "jshintrc", "jsbeautifyrc"],
"brace_style": "collapse", // [collapse|expand|end-expand|none] Put braces on the same line as control statements (default), or put braces on own line (Allman / ANSI style), or just put end braces on own line, or attempt to keep them where they are
"break_chained_methods": false, // Break chained method calls across subsequent lines
"e4x": false, // Pass E4X xml literals through untouched
"end_with_newline": false, // End output with newline
"indent_char": " ", // Indentation character
"indent_level": 0, // Initial indentation level
"indent_size": 4, // Indentation size
"indent_with_tabs": false, // Indent with tabs, overrides `indent_size` and `indent_char`
"jslint_happy": false, // If true, then jslint-stricter mode is enforced
"keep_array_indentation": false, // Preserve array indentation
"keep_function_indentation": false, // Preserve function indentation
"max_preserve_newlines": 0, // Maximum number of line breaks to be preserved in one chunk (0 disables)
"preserve_newlines": true, // Whether existing line breaks should be preserved
"space_after_anon_function": false, // Should the space before an anonymous function's parens be added, "function()" vs "function ()"
"space_before_conditional": true, // Should the space before conditional statement be added, "if(true)" vs "if (true)"
"space_in_empty_paren": false, // Add padding spaces within empty paren, "f()" vs "f( )"
"space_in_paren": false, // Add padding spaces within paren, ie. f( a, b )
"unescape_strings": false, // Should printable characters in strings encoded in \xNN notation be unescaped, "example" vs "\x65\x78\x61\x6d\x70\x6c\x65"
"wrap_line_length": 0 // Lines should wrap at next opportunity after this number of characters (0 disables)
}
}
And here's how a .jsbeautifyrc
file in your home folder could look like:
{
"html": {
"indent_char": "\t",
"indent_size": 1
},
"js": {
"indent_char": " ",
"indent_size": 2
}
}
See documentation for JS, or CSS and HTML.
A few persistent options are always applied from a .jsbeautifyrc
file located in the same directory as the plugin, if not overwritten by your own .jsbeautifyrc
file. Those are defined here. You can safely add stuff to that json file if you want:
Ctrl+Shift+P
orCmd+Shift+P
in Linux/Windows/OS X- type
htmlprettify
, selectSet Prettify Preferences
To add different file extensions use allowed_file_extensions
in the .jsbeautifyrc
file:
{
"html": {
"allowed_file_extensions": ["html", "shtml", "aspx", "master", "xml", "xhtml"]
}
"css": {
"allowed_file_extensions": ["css", "scss", "sass", "less"]
}
"js": {
"allowed_file_extensions": ["js", "json", "jshintrc", "jsbeautifyrc"]
}
}
Thank you!