How to make Liferay not produce condensed HTML code?

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I found that Liferay transfers my JSP code in a somehow "condensed" way -- putting most of the text into a few very long lines.

This makes it uncomfortable to debug javascript.

Is it possible to turn off this feature temporary?

I suggest a better (real) JS debug tool, such as Firebug or Chrome dev tools. — BalusC, Dec 29 '11 at 14:54
One I am using is Firebug. Does it have an option to autoformat? — Dims, Dec 29 '11 at 16:05

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 19 '12 at 05:47

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For others looking at this post, if you simply want to do this on an adhoc basis you can add these params to the URL:

/web/guest/page?js_fast_load=0&css_fast_load=0&strip=0

Note this is for JS, CSS and HTML

answered Sep 19 '12 at 05:47

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Wow, nothing can be quickier and flexible than this! – linuxeasy Oct 28 '14 at 13:27

Fabian Barney · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-29T15:17:11.230

HTML Minification is on regardless you're in developer mode or not since HTML stripping can itself produce problems you want to see in developer mode.

You can add strip=0 parameter to the URL to prevent the served HTML page being stripped.

In order to turn HTML-Stripping completely off change in your system.properties:

com.liferay.filters.strip.StripFilter=false

But as @BalusC said you should use a tool which does the formatting when debugging. So you're not bothered by the stripping.

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 10 '12 at 13:18

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There are two ways to do it. Copy the following in portal-ext.properties and restart the server

javascript.fast.load=false

or If you dont want to restart and its just for temporary purpose add js_fast_load parameter to url and set its value to false.

For example if you are in a page http://localhost:8080/web/guest/home in which your portlet or the javascript is present. Use this url instead http://localhost:8080/web/guest/home?js_fast_load=0

edited Aug 10 '12 at 13:18

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answered Jan 11 '12 at 10:49

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This is only for JS-Files, isn't it? I am not sure, but I think OP worries about debugging Javascript that is inside HTML-Code and not in separate files. – Fabian Barney Jan 11 '12 at 11:02

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 12 '15 at 12:05

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I just want to update package name for Liferay 6.2 from @Fabian Barney's answer:

com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.strip.StripFilter=false

answered Jan 12 '15 at 12:05

cnr..

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 05 '12 at 23:08

Liferay has a file named portal-developer.properties as template in WEB-INF/classes. You can either reference this or just copy/paste the content into your portal-ext.properties.

This has several options to minify html, js, css and others. You'll kill your loading time - i.e. you really only want these options at development time, but then it really helps.

By default all files are also combined into a single one (for js, another for css etc.) - with the development options you'll get a separate request for every file on every page request.

How to make Liferay not produce condensed HTML code?

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