Beautify code : a few glitches ?

[Bertrand]

Nothing really serious, just some curious behaviors.

1. I create a table like this, before entering data, with empty cells :

Before :

<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

and click Beautify

After :

<table>

    <tr>
      <td/>
      <td/>
      <td/>
      <td/>
    </tr>

  </table>

See TD tags ? This is not valid HTML.
(No big deal, putting a temporary space inside empty cells solved the problem.)


2 . I have some paragraphs like this (copy/paste from an other app) :

<p>
hello
</p>

After Beautify, I was expecting something like :

<p>hello</p>

But I got only this :

  <p>
hello
</p>

Same thing for h1, etc.

3. Last thing :
If the closing tag for a HTML comment is at the very beginning of a line, the code after this closing tag loses the syntax highlighting. It seems that at least a space is needed at the beginning of the line to avoid this behavior.

[itimpi]

Originally Posted by Bertrand

Nothing really serious, just some curious behaviors.

1. I create a table like this, before entering data, with empty cells :

Before :

<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

and click Beautify

After :

<table>

    <tr>
      <td/>
      <td/>
      <td/>
      <td/>
    </tr>

  </table>

See TD tags ? This is not valid HTML.
(No big deal, putting a temporary space inside empty cells solved the problem.)

Yes it IS valid XHTML (although a bit unusual). The trailing /> means that no closing tag is needed.

[kovidgoyal]

1. it is valid

2. Beautify does not beautify inside p tags. It only beautifies block level tags that contain only other block level tags and no text.

3. Will be fixed in the next release.

[Bertrand]

Ok thanks !

(About < td /> it's quite a surprise. I'm aware of hr, br, img tags in xhtml but I've never seen this with td. (I'm used to Dreamweaver and I've never seen this when using the Format Code option). Just learned something new today...)