---
name: "esponja"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "hevea"
version: "2.36-2+b4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/esponja"
---

# esponja(1)

Optimize HTML code.

## NAME

esponja - Optimize HTML code.

## SYNOPSIS

**esponja** \[options\] files

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **esponja** command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**Esponja** tries to optimize HTML markup. It is not tolerant against non-valid HTML files. If no *file* is given then it reads from standard input and writes to standard output. If at least on *file* is given then it operates by **modifying** these files.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options are included below.

- **-u**

  Output html files at intermediate stages of the optimization.

- **-v**

  Switch on verbose mode. Can be iterated to increase the verbosity.

- **-n**

  Do not modify files. Instead, the output of processing *file* is written to *file*.esp. This option switches the **-v** on.

- **-help, --help**

  Show usage information.

## SEE ALSO

[**hevea**(1)](/hevea/1.md).

The HeVeA documentation can be found  on the HeVeA home page  *http://hevea.inria.fr*. On a Debian system it can also be accessed at */usr/share/doc/hevea-doc/html* or through the Debian help system, provided the package *hevea-doc* is installed.

## AUTHOR

**Esponja** is part of HeVeA, written by Luc Maranget \<Luc.Maranget@inria.fr\>.

This manual page was compiled by Ralf Treinen \<treinen@debian.org\> from the HeVeA documentation for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).