Cleaning up HTML

**Alisanos** · 25 June 2013, 09:58 AM

Anyone know if there is a way to clean up HTML in Xara, I clean up using DW but as soon as I reopen the document the dormant/empty tags are back.

**PeteS** · 25 June 2013, 10:06 AM

What HTML are you cleaning up? The HTML code that is generated by Web Designer on export, or your own code that you have inserted in placeholders?

**Alisanos** · 25 June 2013, 10:09 AM

The place holder stuff I get rid of myself but Xara seems to generate empty tags on export.

I have tried exporting then opening in DW and cleaning the empty tags - saving the document - but as soon as I reopen the document they are back.

**PeteS** · 25 June 2013, 10:14 AM

1. If you edit the exported HTML pages then the next time you export the document all of those changes will be overwritten

2. Do not edit the generated HTML code from Web Designer, all of the code is required, nessesary and is correct. No extra redundant code is exported, manually changing the generated code may cause certain things in your pages to not work correctly in all, or some browsers. It is there for only good reasons.

**pauland** · 25 June 2013, 10:14 AM

Xara generates the HTML anew every time you publish. It does not use the HTML for editing. You will always lose your changes to the HTML.

[Pete got there before me]

**gwpriester** · 25 June 2013, 12:06 PM

@ Alisanos - What is wrong with the code that Xara created? And what will happen if you "clean it up"?

**steve.ledger** · 25 June 2013, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

And what will happen if you "clean it up"?

It will almost certainly introduce buggy results in browsers.

**Alisanos** · 25 June 2013, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by sledger

It will almost certainly introduce buggy results in browsers.

Well redundant tags shouldn't do that, they are containing nothing.

**PeteS** · 25 June 2013, 12:45 PM

There are no tags which 'do nothing'. Do it at your own risk, but don't be suprised if the site does not behave correctly afterwards (and once you've found that re-export it from Web Designer to fix it, then don't edit it

)

What is it you are hoping to achieve by mucking around with the generated code?

**steve.ledger** · 25 June 2013, 12:56 PM

You might like to check a Xara Web Designer created html via W3C Markup Validation Service
Here's the results for a recent Web Designer created site ► http://goo.gl/dCz7h