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Format the actual HTML to be readable with SeamFramwork

Is there a way to format the actual HTML into readable (nicely formatted) text when generating xhtml pages from SeaMFramework.

I want to be able to rightclick on my webpages and view-source where the html and javascript is well formated (tabbed, new lines). I'm using JSF and Richfaces which genreates their own html and javascripts which I want more readable.

Solution

  • You can use the JTidyFilter for this. Download jtidyservlet.jar, drop it in /WEB-INF/lib and register the filter as follows in web.xml:

    <filter>
    <filter-name>jTidyfilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.w3c.tidy.servlet.filter.JTidyFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>jTidyfilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern> <!-- Or whatever you're using for JSF -->
</filter-mapping>

    I would personally not care about this. The filter has a significant performance impact and browser's developer tools like Chrome/Firebug/IE9 already shows nicely formatted HTML on F12. It are anyway the (puristic) developers who care about this, not "dumb" endusers.