Pretty HTML snippet output

java html jsoup transform pretty-print

Dmytro Pastovenskyi · Mar 22, 2015 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

I've a snippet of HTML <div><p>text1</p></div><div><p>text1</p></div>

I want to make it pretty like this

<div>
  <p>text1</p>
</div>
<div>
  <p>text1</p>
</div>

What would be most simple way to do it? (I've looked on transform and jsoup) but not sure what would be really smart to use. Thanks!

Answer

You can use Jsoup like

String html = "<div><p>text1</p></div><div><p>text1</p></div>";
Document doc = Jsoup.parseBodyFragment(html);

But this will wrap your text into

<html>
  <head></head>
  <body>
    ..
  </body>
</html>

To get rid of this part you can get part from <body> like

System.out.println(doc.body().html());

which prints

<div>
 <p>text1</p>
</div>
<div>
 <p>text1</p>
</div>

If you want to increase indentation you can set it earlier with

doc.outputSettings().indentAmount(4);

now result will look like

<div>
    <p>text1</p>
</div>
<div>
    <p>text1</p>
</div>