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Can HTML/XML editors know to delete end tag when self-terminating? [message #222414]

Mon, 29 September 2008 22:40

David M. Karr
Messages: 329
Registered: July 2009

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One thing that's always annoyed me in the XML and HTML editors is that
when I do completion on a tag, it creates both the start and end tags, but
if I want the element to self-terminate, I have to manually delete the end
tag. I can't imagine I've missed an easier way to do this, but wouldn't
it be handy if there was a quicker (or automatic) way to get the end tag
removed when you self-terminate the start tag?

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Re: Can HTML/XML editors know to delete end tag when self-terminating? [message #222421 is a reply to message #222414]

Tue, 30 September 2008 00:03

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: dcarver.starstandard.org

David M. Karr wrote:
> One thing that's always annoyed me in the XML and HTML editors is that
> when I do completion on a tag, it creates both the start and end tags,
> but if I want the element to self-terminate, I have to manually delete
> the end tag. I can't imagine I've missed an easier way to do this, but
> wouldn't it be handy if there was a quicker (or automatic) way to get
> the end tag removed when you self-terminate the start tag?
>

That should be working in Eclipse 3.4 and Web Tools 3.0. If you
self-terminate the tag, it will automatically delete the End tag if
there is no XML content between the tags. This at least works in the
XML editor, I don't know if it works in the HTML editor or not.

Dave

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Re: Can HTML/XML editors know to delete end tag when self-terminating? [message #222428 is a reply to message #222421]

Tue, 30 September 2008 00:43

David M. Karr
Messages: 143
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

I just installed 3.4.1. I didn't update anything after that. I tried,
but it just doesn't make much sense anymore.

What you describe doesn't appear to be happening in the JSP editor (which
is where I was actually seeing this, not in the HTML editor), but it does
work in the XML editor.

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Re: Can HTML/XML editors know to delete end tag when self-terminating? [message #222472 is a reply to message #222428]

Tue, 30 September 2008 10:37

Nick Sandonato
Messages: 117
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

It looks like an end tag will be removed when creating a self-closing
tag for HTML elements but not JSP or custom tags. Is this what you're
seeing?

If it is, I've opened
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=249122 to track the issue.

David M. Karr wrote:
> I just installed 3.4.1. I didn't update anything after that. I tried,
> but it just doesn't make much sense anymore.
>
> What you describe doesn't appear to be happening in the JSP editor
> (which is where I was actually seeing this, not in the HTML editor), but
> it does work in the XML editor.
>

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