Check your HTML pages easily with TidExpress

TidExpress is a graphical interface specially developed for HTML Tidy 5 by the HTACG, an official W3.org community group.

TidExpress allows you to analyze HTML pages that you have created, detect errors, correct them in a text editor with syntax highlighting, or correct them automatically with the Tidy module options.

I. Quick Start

Open a document: in the File Menu, click Open or drag a file into the text editor.
Analyze the document: click Analyze.
Automatically correct the document: click Clean.
Save the document: in the File Menu, click Save.
Automatic correction settings: click on the Tidy Config tab.
Undo all changes: click Undo Clean.

II. Setting options

The setting options are located in the Tidy Config tab.

To open an existing configuration, select it in the configuration box.

To add an option, click . This will open a dialog box. Select your options in it, then click OK. The inclusion in the grid will be done automatically.

To delete an option, select it in the grid, then click .

To modify an option, click on it, then select the new value in the options box.

To open a list of item option, click on it.

This will open the option editor that allows you to add or delete items of the selected option.

To save a given configuration, click .

III. Document Protection

The Undo Clean button will cancel all previous fixes.

When saving a file, the software indicates if a file with the same name already exists. You can then choose between overwrite the file or cancel the operation.

The configuration file is never modified by the software. If you want to return to the original configuration file, simply reopen it in the configuration box. The configuration file will be preserved as long as you will not overwrite it.

Despite these protections, it is advisable to make a copy of your original page, such as a compressed backup (7z, rar, zip ...), so that you can go back if needed.

IV. Ergonomics of the interface

TidExpress supports drag'n'drop to open your documents.

In the code editor, the font size is quickly adjustable. It is the same thing for the automatic line feed when a line is too long (Wordwrap).

The error list is at the bottom of the interface, but you can move it to the left if your screen is large enough (Menu / View / Move Error List to the left). The border have a splitter to resize the error list with the mouse.

When you double-click on an error in the list, the corresponding line in the code editor will be highlighted.

V. HTML 5 and CSS 3

TidExpress contains an integrated web browser to view the pages you create. You must use TidExpress on a main account of your computer (not a guest account whose rights are restricted) to display HTML5 and CSS3 in this web browser.

If you can't obtain the display of these languages correctly, adjust the following values in the Windows registry:

• Current user :
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
  Key name: TidExpress.exe. Value (DWORD) décimal : 0
• On a 32 bit system :
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
  Key name: TidExpress.exe. Value (DWORD) décimal : 0
• On a 64 bit system :
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
  Key name: TidExpress.exe Value (DWORD) décimal : 0

If that doesn't work, then change the decimal value of the TidExpress key, depending of the IE version installed on your machine:

• IE 11 : 11001
• IE 11 (!DOCTYPE IE9) : 11000
• IE 10 : 10001
• IE 10 (!DOCTYPE IE9) : 10000
• IE 9 : 9999
• IE 9 (!DOCTYPE IE9) : 9000
• IE 8 : 8888
• IE 8 (!DOCTYPE IE8) : 8000
• IE 7 : 7000
• 0 : by default

VI. Language files of the sofware

TidExpress is a multi-language software. English and french are actually supported. If you want to add another languages, it is possible with the following rules.

A language package consist in two elements:
1. language file
2. help file

File names must be strictly as follows:
language file: [lang_] [Language id] [.txt], e.g: "lang_en.txt".
HTML help file: [help_] [Language id] [.htm], e.g: "help_en.htm".

TidExpress will scan the segment between "_" and "." as the id of the language, and will use it to detect the files of the kit. If a file is not find, TidExpress will use the english by default.

VII. Uninstalling the program

On your hard drive, simply delete the folder of TidExpress. There is nothing more to do.

Indeed, TidExpress is a portable software that can run on a USB stick or an external hard drive. In addition, TidExpress do not write anything in the registry of your computer.

Document version 1.2. Author: Christian Feron, April 2016.