Online code beautifier and formatter [closed]

Question

What are the best online code beautifier and formatter out there? I'm not asking for highlighters. Any language will do.

Whereas

viewed over 57k times... good thing you guys got on top of it and closed this – Sporocyte

Over 61k times now, so about 4k views in the last month. Yes, definitely not a constructive question. – Adiaphorism

Not sure why this topic was closed, but tohtml.com/javaProperties worked well for me. The styles and color are "inline" which makes it very simple to copy and paste into something else. – Aconcagua

Answer 1

CSS: code beautifier

HTML: HTML Tidy, CleanUp HTML or the general purpose Pretty Diff

Javascript: http://jsbeautifier.org/

PHP: http://beta.phpformatter.com/

SQL: http://dpriver.com/pp/sqlformat.htm

XML: http://chris.photobooks.com/xml/default.htm

Colour all: http://quickhighlighter.com/

Posology

Can you suggest any formatter which follow PSR-2 code standard for PHP? – Illeetvilaine

For SQL formatting there is the free online Formatter SQLinForm sqlinform.com/sql_formatter_online.html – Lvov

I dont find anything for AWK. Surprised – Cortes

or use pastebin and highlight code for a variety of languages - pastebin.com – Rondi

For VB indentation: warp.senecac.on.ca/timothy.mckenna/CodeFormatter.asp – Fetial

has anyone a Code Beautifier (not a highlighter) for PHP7? – Carpophagous

Answer 2

For PHP, Java, C++, C, Perl, JavaScript, CSS you can try:

http://www.prettyprinter.de/index.php

Garrick

Did you actually try this one? It outputs > for > and similar. – Onslaught

I think that is because those will be embedded inside another html page, as a sample, etc, and really should be. – Lemmie

It outputs < for <... – Croupier

Answer 3

You can use Perl::Tidy for Perl.

Forbes

Answer 4

JsonLint is good for validating and formatting JSON.

Sinner

JsonLint is a great tool for quickly validating JSON output. – Strasbourg

If you're using Chrome, there's a great json formatter extension at chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/… – Gerda

Answer 5

It depends of the language, and of the architecture you are using.

For example, in a php platform, you can format almost language with GeSHi

As bluish comments, GeSHi is a generic syntax highlighter, with no beautification feature. It is more used on the server side, and combine it with a beautification tool can be tricky, as illustrated with this GeSHi drupal ticket.

Babiche

-1 has no beaufitication, only hightlighting – Posology

@bluish: true. I have included your comment in my answer. – Babiche

@Glorfindel Thank you for the edit. I thought I lost those images for good. – Babiche

Answer 6

What language?? There are different tools for almost every imaginable programming language, since they all have different syntactic rules and conventions.

Good ol' indent is a nice, customizable, command-line utility to format C and C++ programs.

Schermerhorn

Since the question asked for "online beautifier", do you know of any Web frontends to indent? – Encomium

Answer 7

I've used Quick Highlighter a lot. Works great for a huge list of languages.

Nada

-1 OP didn't ask about highlighters. This doesn't do formatting/beautifying. – Posology

Answer 8

Use gist.github.com. There is a multi-language support(java, c, c++, c#, vb, haskell, ruby, javascript, lua, HTML, SQL, Tcl, Perl, JSON, groovy...)

Here is a sample "Generate LiquiBase changeLogs using Groovy"

Lid

Dude, it's really beautiful. I'd choose this as the answer :-) Thanks… – Anthropomorphous

its only showing pasted code. How to format that ? – Santinasantini

that is correct, it is a code beautifier and code snippets storage. It has some cool features (like share, star and private snippets). – Lid

checked most of links on this page. This one is best. – Morty

-1, This is a code highlighter not a code beautifier / formatter. – Juliojulis