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HTML Diff & Compare
Use a browser-local LCS diff to inspect added, removed, and unchanged source lines.
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ReadyLine-based source diff, not semantic DOM equivalence. Each side is capped at 500 lines to limit quadratic browser work.
Review-ready HTML source diff
Reuse the Original and Modified HTML already entered above, then compare aligned lines or generate a compact unified-style patch.
Line comparison is browser-local and capped to keep large pastes responsive.
HTML source & tag inventory audit
Separate source-line changes from structural tag-count changes and optional normalization noise.
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Practical guide and verification
Use the interactive product above first. These notes add interpretation, verification and limits below the results and product controls.
Normalize only the differences you intend to ignore
Ignoring whitespace can reduce noise after formatting changes, and ignoring case can be useful for some text comparisons. Both options can also hide meaningful changes in preformatted text, identifiers, attributes or case-sensitive code.
Source diff and rendered-page diff answer different questions
Two HTML files may render similarly while containing different metadata, attributes or scripts, and visually different pages can result from identical HTML with different CSS or assets. Use this tool for source comparison, not as a screenshot regression test.
Read change counts together with the actual lines
A large addition or deletion count can come from one block moving position rather than many independent edits. Inspect the aligned or unified output before describing the scale or meaning of a change.
Comments may be intentionally significant
Removing comments from the comparison is useful when generated comments are noisy, but conditional comments, build markers or documentation can matter to a workflow. Keep the audit setting with any diff evidence you share.
Copyable patches are review aids
A unified-style patch is convenient for discussion, but this browser comparison does not replace version-control context such as file paths, rename detection, binary changes or repository history. Preserve the original source files when the comparison is evidence.