About HtmlFormatter
A developer story, not a corporate pitch.
It started with a mess
You know those nights. You're debugging some template, and the HTML you grabbed from a CMS or scraped from a page is just one massive line. No indentation. No breathing room. You're squinting at the screen trying to find that one broken <div> somewhere in the middle.
I got fed up with that. So I built a tiny formatter for myself — paste, format, done. No signup, no "create account to continue," no limits. It just worked. Saved me a ton of time. Then I kept running into other little annoyances: need to validate this HTML, need to minify that file, need to pull a table into JSON… so I added more tools. After a while, keeping them to myself felt silly. If it helped me, it could probably help you too.
Built for the way we actually work
I wanted tools that don't fight you. No gatekeeping behind signups. No "upgrade to Pro" for things that should just work. And definitely no telemetry snooping on what you're pasting. Just simple tools that do one job well and get out of your way.
Everything runs right in your browser. Your HTML never touches our servers — it stays on your machine. That's intentional. I don't want your code; I just want to help you work with it.
What you'll find here
Formatting, minification, validation, HTML to JSON, PDF export, HTML to text — the stuff you actually reach for when you're in the middle of a project. I add tools when they make sense, not when some dashboard says we need "more engagement."
Say hi
Got a suggestion? Hit a bug? Or just want to say thanks? Drop a line at [email protected]. A real person reads it — no bots, no canned responses.