Web Development Tools
Web development tools cover the routine front-end tasks that interrupt a working day: making minified HTML, CSS or JavaScript readable again, shrinking them before a deploy, converting a colour between hex, RGB and HSL, and looking up what a 422 response or an unfamiliar MIME type actually means. Formatting and minification run entirely in your browser.
Front-end work generates a steady stream of small interruptions. A stylesheet arrives minified and you need to read one rule. A designer supplies hex and the CSS needs HSL. An API returns 422 and you need to know whether that is your fault or theirs.
The formatters here only change whitespace between tokens — string literals, template literals, regular expressions and comments come through byte for byte, which is what makes them safe to point at third-party code you did not write.
HTML
2 toolsMake markup readable, or strip it down for production.
CSS and JavaScript
4 toolsFormat for reading, minify for shipping.
- CSS Formatter Expand minified CSS into readable, indented rules. In your browser
- CSS Minifier Compress CSS by removing whitespace and comments. In your browser
- JavaScript Formatter Re-indent JavaScript so minified code becomes readable. In your browser
- JavaScript Minifier Strip comments and whitespace from JavaScript safely. In your browser
Markup and content
4 toolsTurn Markdown into HTML you can paste somewhere else.
- Markdown to HTML Converter Convert Markdown into clean, safe HTML source. In your browser
- HTML to Text Converter Extract readable plain text from HTML, keeping the structure. In your browser
- HTML Table to CSV Pull a table out of a web page and turn it into CSV. In your browser
- Data URI Encoder Turn an SVG or snippet into an embeddable data: URI. In your browser
URLs and headers
3 toolsTake apart the strings that carry a request, without making one.
Colour and references
3 toolsConvert colour notations and look up the specifications you half-remember.
What people use these for
- Read one rule inside a minified third-party stylesheet.
- Convert a designer's hex palette into HSL so you can adjust lightness systematically.
- Check whether a 409 or a 422 is the right status code for a failed validation.
- Find the correct Content-Type to serve a font or a WebP image.
- Minify a small inline script before pasting it into a template.
- Tidy machine-generated HTML so a colleague can review the diff.
Web Development Tools: frequently asked questions
Will the formatters break my code?
Is the JavaScript minifier a full compressor?
Is my code sent to a server?
Which colour formats does the converter support?
Related topics
All tools →Last reviewed 7 August 2026.