---
name: "hxprune"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "html-xml-utils"
version: "8.8-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hxprune"
---

# hxprune(1)

remove marked elements from an HTML file

## NAME

hxprune - remove marked elements from an HTML file

## SYNOPSIS

**hxprune** \[ **-c** *class* \] \[ **-x** \] \[ *file* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**hxprune** removes specially marked elements (with their content and children) from an HTML file. By default it removes elements with a class attribute of "exclude". The class attribute is parsed as a whitespace-separated list of words and if one of those words is "exclude", the element is not copied to the output.

## OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

- **-c** *class*

  Specify a different *class* than "exclude".

- **-x**

  Force output to be in XML-style, i.e., without short attributes and with a slash (/) to mark empty elements.