[TIPS] How to correct HTML tags

To correct messed-up HTML tags using Python, you can use libraries like BeautifulSoup from the bs4 module. BeautifulSoup is powerful for parsing and fixing HTML.

Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to use it:

Step 1: Install BeautifulSoup

If you haven’t installed BeautifulSoup and lxml (a parser library), you can install them using pip:

pip install beautifulsoup4 lxml

Step 2: Use BeautifulSoup to Parse and Correct HTML

Here’s an example script that reads an HTML string, parses it with BeautifulSoup, and then outputs the corrected HTML.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# Example of messed-up HTML content messed_up_html = """ YOUR MESSY HTML CONTENT """

# Parse the HTML soup = BeautifulSoup(messed_up_html, 'lxml') # Pretty print the corrected HTML corrected_html = soup.prettify() print(corrected_html)

messy html tags

Explanation

BeautifulSoup: A Python library for parsing HTML and XML documents. It creates a parse tree from page source code that can be used to extract data from HTML.
lxml: A parser for BeautifulSoup. It is faster and more lenient with broken HTML compared to the default parser.