diff --git a/syntax_checkers/html/tidy.vim b/syntax_checkers/html/tidy.vim
index b55d1395..018c7151 100644
--- a/syntax_checkers/html/tidy.vim
+++ b/syntax_checkers/html/tidy.vim
@@ -9,11 +9,24 @@
 "             See http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.
 "
 "============================================================================
+"
+" Checker option:
+"
+" - g:syntastic_html_tidy_ignore_errors (list; default: [])
+"   list of errors to ignore
 
 if exists("g:loaded_syntastic_html_tidy_checker")
     finish
 endif
-let g:loaded_syntastic_html_tidy_checker=1
+let g:loaded_syntastic_html_tidy_checker = 1
+
+if !exists('g:syntastic_html_tidy_ignore_errors')
+    let g:syntastic_html_tidy_ignore_errors = []
+endif
+
+function! SyntaxCheckers_html_tidy_IsAvailable()
+    return executable('tidy')
+endfunction
 
 " TODO: join this with xhtml.vim for DRY's sake?
 function! s:TidyEncOptByFenc()
@@ -48,57 +61,45 @@ let s:ignore_html_errors = [
                 \ "attribute \"[+",
                 \ "unescaped & or unknown entity",
                 \ "<input> attribute \"type\" has invalid value \"search\""
-                \]
+                \ ]
 
-function! s:ValidateError(text)
-    let valid = 0
-    for i in s:ignore_html_errors
+function! s:IgnoreErrror(text)
+    for i in s:ignore_html_errors + g:syntastic_html_tidy_ignore_errors
         if stridx(a:text, i) != -1
-            let valid = 1
-            break
+            return 1
         endif
     endfor
-    return valid
+    return 0
 endfunction
 
 function s:Args()
-    let args = s:TidyEncOptByFenc()
-    let args .= " --new-blocklevel-tags " . shellescape('section, article, aside, hgroup, header, footer, nav, figure, figcaption')
-    let args .= " --new-inline-tags " . shellescape('video, audio, source, embed, mark, progress, meter, time, ruby, rt, rp, canvas, command, details, datalist')
-    let args .= " --new-empty-tags " . shellescape('wbr, keygen')
-    let args .= " -e"
+    let args = s:TidyEncOptByFenc() .
+        \ ' --new-blocklevel-tags ' . shellescape('section, article, aside, hgroup, header, footer, nav, figure, figcaption') .
+        \ ' --new-inline-tags ' . shellescape('video, audio, source, embed, mark, progress, meter, time, ruby, rt, rp, canvas, command, details, datalist') .
+        \ ' --new-empty-tags ' . shellescape('wbr, keygen') .
+        \ ' -e'
     return args
 endfunction
 
-function! SyntaxCheckers_html_tidy_IsAvailable()
-    return executable('tidy')
-endfunction
-
 function! SyntaxCheckers_html_tidy_GetLocList()
     let makeprg = syntastic#makeprg#build({
-                \ 'exe': 'tidy',
-                \ 'args': s:Args(),
-                \ 'tail': '2>&1',
-                \ 'subchecker': 'tidy' })
-    let errorformat='%Wline %l column %c - Warning: %m,%Eline %l column %c - Error: %m,%-G%.%#,%-G%.%#'
+        \ 'exe': 'tidy',
+        \ 'args': s:Args(),
+        \ 'tail': '2>&1',
+        \ 'subchecker': 'tidy' })
+    let errorformat =
+        \ '%Wline %l column %c - Warning: %m,' .
+        \ '%Eline %l column %c - Error: %m,' .
+        \ '%-G%.%#'
 
-    let loclist = SyntasticMake({ 'makeprg': makeprg, 'errorformat': errorformat })
+    let loclist = SyntasticMake({ 'makeprg': makeprg, 'errorformat': errorformat, 'defaults': {'bufnr': bufnr("")} })
 
-    " process loclist since we need to add some info and filter out valid HTML5
-    " from the errors
-    let n = len(loclist) - 1
-    let bufnum = bufnr("")
-    while n >= 0
-        let i = loclist[n]
-        " filter out valid HTML5
-        if s:ValidateError(i['text']) == 1
-            unlet loclist[n]
-        else
-            "the file name isnt in the output so stick in the buf num manually
-            let i['bufnr'] = bufnum
+    " filter out valid HTML5 from the errors
+    for n in range(len(loclist))
+        if loclist[n]['valid'] && s:IgnoreErrror(loclist[n]['text']) == 1
+            let loclist[n]['valid'] = 0
         endif
-        let n -= 1
-    endwhile
+    endfor
 
     return loclist
 endfunction
diff --git a/syntax_checkers/xhtml/tidy.vim b/syntax_checkers/xhtml/tidy.vim
index 5c2c64c1..a72c2136 100644
--- a/syntax_checkers/xhtml/tidy.vim
+++ b/syntax_checkers/xhtml/tidy.vim
@@ -41,10 +41,13 @@ endfunction
 function! SyntaxCheckers_xhtml_tidy_GetLocList()
     let encopt = s:TidyEncOptByFenc()
     let makeprg = syntastic#makeprg#build({
-                \ 'exe': 'tidy',
-                \ 'args': encopt . ' -xml -e',
-                \ 'subchecker': 'tidy' })
-    let errorformat='%Wline %l column %c - Warning: %m,%Eline %l column %c - Error: %m,%-G%.%#,%-G%.%#'
+        \ 'exe': 'tidy',
+        \ 'args': encopt . ' -xml -e',
+        \ 'subchecker': 'tidy' })
+    let errorformat=
+        \ '%Wline %l column %c - Warning: %m,' .
+        \ '%Eline %l column %c - Error: %m,' .
+        \ '%-G%.%#'
     return SyntasticMake({ 'makeprg': makeprg, 'errorformat': errorformat, 'defaults': {'bufnr': bufnr("")} })
 endfunction