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Blank Lines (HTML) is one of the source-code metrics Understand computes across 17+ languages — browse them in the GUI, export and track them, or script them with the Python API.

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Blank Lines (HTML)

API ID: CountLineBlankHtml
Languages: Web
Targets: Architectures, Files, Project

Number of blank HTML lines.

Only counts blank lines outside embedded sub-language blocks; a blank line inside a <script> block counts towards Blank Lines (JavaScript) instead.

For example:


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Welcome</title>

  <!-- Greeting script: tracks visits and confirms with the user -->
  <script>
    // Number of times the page has greeted someone
    var greetingCount = 0;

    function greetUser(name) {
      greetingCount++;
      return "Hello, " + name + "!";
    }

    let message = greetUser("Ada");
    console.log(message);

    if (greetingCount > 0) {
      confirm(message);
    }
  </script>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Welcome to the site</h1>
  <p>Have a look around.</p>
</body>
</html>

Line 5, the blank line inside <head> before the script's comment, is the only blank HTML line. The three blank lines inside the <script> block (10, 15, 18) count towards Blank Lines (JavaScript) instead, giving CountLineBlankHtml = 1.

See Blank Lines (JavaScript) for blank lines inside embedded scripts, and Blank Lines for the language-independent metric this breaks down.

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