Indenting HTML Markup

[jay20aiii]

Hi what would be the best way to separate and indent html tags taken from a source I have no control over.

 

For example some rows may have leading/trailing tabs and spaces. Multiple code tags can appear in a single line. Closing tags may be inline, on a new line or even follow empty lines. (Basically a spaghetti soup of html code).

 

And if possible, I would like to include this html within my own (already formatted) html. So let's say the include was within a tag that was 2 tabs deep. I presume I could somehow use a function that would add two tabs to start of each row after formatting the spaghetti, in order to make it follow the flow of my own code.

 

Is there a simple method to do this already? Would I need to code one, and what would be the best way to optimize such a method?

 

Thanks

[sKunKbad]

There are worse things to worry about, but if it really bothers you, check out php's Tidy extension.