Question

I realize that VS200X can ident asp files properly, however, for the sake of ease in finding attributes, is there a tool that will also organize the attribute order within a tag alphabetically? I’m always scanning around a tag visually and if the attributes were sorted alphabetically, asides maybe from ID and runat which should remain first, I would have a much easier time.

Answer 1

HTML Tidy

You can set the set-attributes option in the config file to alpha, and all the attributes will be sorted alphabetically.

Attribute: sort-attributes
Type: enum
Default: none
Example: none, alpha

This option specifies that tidy should sort attributes
within an element using the specified sort algorithm.
If set to “alpha”, the algorithm is an ascending alphabetic sort.

Example config file (tidy.config):

sort-attributes:alpha
show-body-only:yes

Example input file (test.html):

<a href="2" class="1"></a>

Executed command:

tidy -config tidy.config test.html

Results:

<a class="1" href="2"></a>