HTML Formatter

Beautify and minify HTML with proper indentation in your browser.


    

  

  

    
    
    
    
    
    
  

  


    

    

      
ToolsSoup's HTML Formatter is a free online tool that beautifies and minifies HTML right in your browser. Paste messy, minified, or single-line HTML and get clean, properly indented markup with one click, or compress it back down to save bytes. It handles void elements like br and img, keeps the contents of pre, textarea, script, and style untouched, and never uploads your code — no sign-up, nothing leaves your device.

      

        
What is an HTML formatter?

        
An HTML formatter — also called an HTML beautifier or pretty printer — rewrites raw markup with consistent indentation and line breaks so it is easy to read and review. It understands HTML's quirks: void elements such as br, img, input, and meta have no closing tag and never indent their children, and raw-text elements such as pre, textarea, script, and style keep their content exactly as written. Developers use it to tidy up scraped pages, email templates, generated markup, and code copied from minified bundles.

        
      

      

        
How to format HTML online

        
Beautifying HTML with ToolsSoup takes just a few seconds:

        
  1. Paste your HTML into the input box on the left.
  2. Pick an indent size — 2 spaces, 4 spaces, or a tab.
  3. Click Format to indent it, or Minify to compress it onto the fewest characters.
  4. Copy the cleaned-up result and drop it back into your project.

      

      

        
Does it keep pre, script, and style content intact?

        
Yes. Whitespace inside pre and textarea is significant, and the bodies of script and style are code, so the formatter preserves their content verbatim instead of re-indenting it. Only the surrounding tags are aligned, so your preformatted text, inline scripts, and stylesheets are never corrupted.

        
      

      

        
What is the difference between formatting and minifying HTML?

        
Formatting adds indentation and line breaks to make HTML readable, while minifying removes the whitespace between tags and strips comments to make the file as small as possible. Both keep your page's structure identical, so you can switch back and forth freely while developing and ship the minified version to production.

        
      

      

        
Why use this HTML formatter?

        
  • 100% free with no ads, sign-up, or usage limits.
  • Runs entirely in your browser — your markup is never uploaded to a server.
  • Beautify and minify HTML in one click.
  • Choose 2-space, 4-space, or tab indentation.
  • Handles void elements (br, img, input, meta) correctly.
  • Preserves pre, textarea, script, and style content verbatim.

      

      

        
Frequently asked questions

        

          
Is this HTML formatter free?

          
Yes. Every tool on ToolsSoup is completely free to use, with no account, sign-up, or hidden limits.

        

        

          
Is my HTML safe?

          
Absolutely. All formatting happens locally in your browser using JavaScript, so your markup is never sent to or stored on any server.

        

        

          
Will it break my script or style blocks?

          
No. The contents of script, style, pre, and textarea are treated as raw text and kept exactly as written. Only the tags around them are re-indented.

        

        

          
How does it handle void elements like br and img?

          
Void elements have no closing tag, so the formatter does not indent any children under them and leaves them on their own line at the correct depth.

        

        

          
What is the difference between formatting and minifying?

          
Formatting indents the HTML for readability, while minifying strips comments and whitespace between tags to shrink the file. Neither changes how the page renders.