+[[!template id=plugin name=htmltidy author="Faidon Liambotis"]]
+[[!tag type/html]]
+[[!tag type/slow]]
+
This plugin uses [tidy](http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) to tidy up the html
emitted by ikiwiki. Besides being nicely formatted, this helps ensure that
-even if users enter suboptimal html, your wiki generates 100% valid html.
+even if users enter suboptimal html, your wiki generates valid html.
-This plugin is included in ikiwiki, but is not enabled by default.
+Note that since tidy is an external program, that is run each time a page
+is built, this plugin will slow ikiwiki down somewhat. [[plugins/htmlbalance]]
+might provide a faster alternative.