HTML

Learn how Vale handles HTML content.

HTML5 support is built in. The supported extensions are .html, .htm, .shtml, and .xhtml.

By default, Vale ignores script, style, pre, code, and tt tags, as well as URLs (see URL handling for more information).

Comments

Vale supports comment-based configuration in HTML files:

• Turn Vale off entirely:

<!-- vale off -->

This text will be ignored.

<!-- vale on -->

• Turn off a specific rule:

<!-- vale Style.Redundancy = NO -->

This is some text ACT test

<!-- vale Style.Redundancy = YES -->

• Turn off specific match(es) within a rule:

<!-- vale Style.Redundancy["ACT test","OTHER"] = NO -->

This is some text ACT test

<!-- vale Style.Redundancy["ACT test","OTHER"] = YES -->

• Turn on or off specific styles:

<!-- vale StyleName1 = YES -->
<!-- vale StyleName2 = NO -->

• Set styles (enabling them and switching off any other styles):

<!-- vale style = StyleName1 -->
<!-- vale styles = StyleName1, StyleName2 -->