Output formatted HTML code

[umi-soft]

thanks for CkEditor, grate product.

getData() always return minimized html value。such as:

<div><div>a</div><div>b</div></div>

but how can i get unminimized code，such as：

<div>
   <div>
      a
   </div>
   <div>
      b
   </div>
</div>

[mlewand]

Note that you can use any HTML formatting library like js-beautify.

[umi-soft]

thanks

[Mgsy]

I will leave this feature request as open, as someone might be interested in seeing an official solution in CKEditor 5.

[lost-carrier]

+1

Some kind of pretty printed output would be great... I store the data in in backend in Git Database... would be handy to have the diffs making some sense...

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[quicksketch]

I'd love this feature too. Based on CKEditor 5's "Source" plugin, it appears as though CKEditor 5 already has a way to pretty-print source code, so I would not expect a 3rd party library to be necessary to achieve clean output.

[quicksketch]

I found a related issue with the way HTML is exported and filed an issue at #15293. But it's possible that fixing that issue might also help here, if CKEditor were to provide a better HTML exporter than the current BasicHtmlWriter.