---
name: "html-minifier-terser"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "node-html-minifier-terser"
version: "7.2.0~5.5.3+repack2-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/html-minifier-terser"
---

# html-minifier-terser(1)

JavaScript based HTML minifier

## NAME

html-minifier-terser - JavaScript based HTML minifier

## SYNOPSIS

**html-minifier-terser** \[*options*\] \[*files*...\]

## OPTIONS

- **-V**, **--version**

  output the version number

- **--case-sensitive**

  Treat attributes in case sensitive manner (useful for SVG; e.g. viewBox)

- **--collapse-boolean-attributes**

  Omit attribute values from boolean attributes

- **--collapse-inline-tag-whitespace**

  Collapse white space around inline tag

- **--collapse-whitespace**

  Collapse white space that contributes to text nodes in a document tree.

- **--conservative-collapse**

  Always collapse to 1 space (never remove it entirely)

- **--continue-on-parse-error**

  Handle parse errors instead of aborting

- **--custom-attr-assign** \<value\>

  Arrays of regex'es that allows one to support custom attribute assign expressions (e.g. '\<div flex?="{{mode != cover}}"\>\</div\>')

- **--custom-attr-collapse** \<value\>

  Regex that specifies custom attribute to strip newlines from (e.g. /ng-class/)

- **--custom-attr-surround** \<value\>

  Arrays of regex'es that allows one to support custom attribute surround expressions (e.g. \<input {{#if value}}checked="checked"{{/if}}\>)

- **--custom-event-attributes** \<value\>

  Arrays of regex'es that allows one to support custom event attributes for minifyJS (e.g. ng-click)

- **--decode-entities**

  Use direct Unicode characters whenever possible

- **--no-html5**

  Parse input according to HTML5 specifications

- **--ignore-custom-comments** \<value\>

  Array of regex'es that allows one to ignore certain comments, when matched

- **--ignore-custom-fragments** \<value\>

  Array of regex'es that allows one to ignore certain fragments, when matched (e.g. \<?php ... ?\>, {{ ... }})

- **--no-include-auto-generated-tags**

  Insert tags generated by HTML parser

- **--keep-closing-slash**

  Keep the trailing slash on singleton elements

- **--max-line-length** \<value\>

  Max line length

- **--minify-css** \[value\]

  Minify CSS in style elements and style attributes (uses clean-css)

- **--minify-js** \[value\]

  Minify Javascript in script elements and on\* attributes (uses terser)

- **--minify-urls** \[value\]

  Minify URLs in various attributes (uses relateurl)

- **--no-newlines-before-tag-close**

  Never add a newline before a tag that closes an element

- **--preserve-line-breaks**

  Always collapse to 1 line break (never remove it entirely) when whitespace between tags include a line break.

- **--prevent-attributes-escaping**

  Prevents the escaping of the values of attributes.

- **--process-conditional-comments**

  Process contents of conditional comments through minifier

- **--process-scripts** \<value\>

  Array of strings corresponding to types of script elements to process through minifier (e.g. "text/ng-template", "text/x-handlebars-template", etc.)

- **--quote-character** \<value\>

  Type of quote to use for attribute values (' or ")

- **--remove-attribute-quotes**

  Remove quotes around attributes when possible.

- **--remove-comments**

  Strip HTML comments

- **--remove-empty-attributes**

  Remove all attributes with whitespace-only values

- **--remove-empty-elements**

  Remove all elements with empty contents

- **--remove-optional-tags**

  Remove unrequired tags

- **--remove-redundant-attributes**

  Remove attributes when value matches default.

- **--remove-script-type-attributes**

  Removes the following attributes from script tags: text/javascript, text/ecmascript, text/jscript, application/javascript, application/x-javascript, application/ecmascript. Other type attribute values are left intact

- **--remove-style-link-type-attributes**

  Remove type="text/css" from style and link tags. Other type attribute values are left intact.

- **--remove-tag-whitespace**

  Remove space between attributes whenever possible

- **--sort-attributes**

  Sort attributes by frequency

- **--sort-class-name**

  Sort style classes by frequency

- **--trim-custom-fragments**

  Trim white space around ignoreCustomFragments.

- **--use-short-doctype**

  Replaces the doctype with the short (HTML5) doctype

- **-o** **--output** \<file\>

  Specify output file (if not specified STDOUT will be used for output)

- **-c** **--config-file** \<file\>

  Use config file

- **--input-dir** \<dir\>

  Specify an input directory

- **--output-dir** \<dir\>

  Specify an output directory

- **--file-ext** \<text\>

  Specify an extension to be read, ex: html

- **-h**, **--help**

  display help for command