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I posted this in another newsgroup, so please forgive me if you've already
seen it.
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Am I missing something here?

Quite frequently, I'll write an aspx document taking care to format the HTML
so that I and others on my team can read it. <sarcasm>We kind of like to
know what's going on when we come back to the document later.</sarcasm> In
any case, the editor, when switching from HTML view to the designer view
will do crazy things like completely remove all of the formatting in the
HTML as well as remove style and other attributes, and it will even remove
the quotes from the attributes it leaves in place.

I've checked the options for my IDE, and I've turned off HTML validation and
unchecked the Apply Automatic Formatting boxes. Is there another setting I
need to check to get the IDE to leave my HTML as I enter it. I'm really
getting tired of having to fix the IDE's screw ups because it REALLY doesn't
know how to write HTML.

TIA for any assistance.

Craig
Nov 19 '05 #1
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As others have pointed out, this is a WKP (well-known problem) with
VS.NET 2002 and VS.NET 2003, which has been fixed in VS.NET 2005.

Juan T. Llibre, ASP.NET MVP
ASP.NET FAQ : http://asp.net.do/faq/
Foros de ASP.NET en Español : http://asp.net.do/foros/
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"Craig Hunt" <us**@domain.co m> wrote in message
news:uf******** ************@to rnado.tampabay. rr.com...
I posted this in another newsgroup, so please forgive me if you've already
seen it.
---

Am I missing something here?

Quite frequently, I'll write an aspx document taking care to format the HTML
so that I and others on my team can read it. <sarcasm>We kind of like to
know what's going on when we come back to the document later.</sarcasm> In
any case, the editor, when switching from HTML view to the designer view
will do crazy things like completely remove all of the formatting in the
HTML as well as remove style and other attributes, and it will even remove
the quotes from the attributes it leaves in place.

I've checked the options for my IDE, and I've turned off HTML validation and
unchecked the Apply Automatic Formatting boxes. Is there another setting I
need to check to get the IDE to leave my HTML as I enter it. I'm really
getting tired of having to fix the IDE's screw ups because it REALLY doesn't
know how to write HTML.

TIA for any assistance.

Craig

Nov 19 '05 #2
Hi Craig,

It is a known problem. To get around the missing quotes thing don't switch
between Design & HTML views while your app is running in the IDE. If you do
and your quotes go away then when your app is stopped make a small change in
HTML view then switch to Design view and back to HTML view and everything
should have quotes again. Annoying workaround, but it has saved me some
time. Good luck! Ken.

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"Craig Hunt" <us**@domain.co m> wrote in message
news:uf******** ************@to rnado.tampabay. rr.com...
I posted this in another newsgroup, so please forgive me if you've already
seen it.
---

Am I missing something here?

Quite frequently, I'll write an aspx document taking care to format the HTML so that I and others on my team can read it. <sarcasm>We kind of like to
know what's going on when we come back to the document later.</sarcasm> In any case, the editor, when switching from HTML view to the designer view
will do crazy things like completely remove all of the formatting in the
HTML as well as remove style and other attributes, and it will even remove
the quotes from the attributes it leaves in place.

I've checked the options for my IDE, and I've turned off HTML validation and unchecked the Apply Automatic Formatting boxes. Is there another setting I need to check to get the IDE to leave my HTML as I enter it. I'm really
getting tired of having to fix the IDE's screw ups because it REALLY doesn't know how to write HTML.

TIA for any assistance.

Craig

Nov 19 '05 #3
My apologies to the group.

I found the answer to my question about five seconds after I hit send.

Too late to retrieve the message at that point.

Thanks for the reply.

Cheers!

"Juan T. Llibre" <no***********@ nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:uZ******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl...
As others have pointed out, this is a WKP (well-known problem) with
VS.NET 2002 and VS.NET 2003, which has been fixed in VS.NET 2005.

Nov 19 '05 #4
Unfortunately with VS 2003, you need to live with this. This is corrected in
VS 2005
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Aarthi R S

"Craig Hunt" wrote:
I posted this in another newsgroup, so please forgive me if you've already
seen it.
---

Am I missing something here?

Quite frequently, I'll write an aspx document taking care to format the HTML
so that I and others on my team can read it. <sarcasm>We kind of like to
know what's going on when we come back to the document later.</sarcasm> In
any case, the editor, when switching from HTML view to the designer view
will do crazy things like completely remove all of the formatting in the
HTML as well as remove style and other attributes, and it will even remove
the quotes from the attributes it leaves in place.

I've checked the options for my IDE, and I've turned off HTML validation and
unchecked the Apply Automatic Formatting boxes. Is there another setting I
need to check to get the IDE to leave my HTML as I enter it. I'm really
getting tired of having to fix the IDE's screw ups because it REALLY doesn't
know how to write HTML.

TIA for any assistance.

Craig

Nov 19 '05 #5
In a perfect world VS's HTML view would be Notepad with intellisense.

Nov 19 '05 #6
And color-coding, and collapsing regions, and...and...and .

Juan T. Llibre, ASP.NET MVP
ASP.NET FAQ : http://asp.net.do/faq/
Foros de ASP.NET en Español : http://asp.net.do/foros/
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In a perfect world VS's HTML view would be Notepad with intellisense.

Nov 19 '05 #7
How customizable is the HTML editor in 2005 Juan?

Nov 19 '05 #8
Quite a bit, poppybush.

Check out the possibilities in "Tools", "Options", "Text HTML Editor",
and see all the stuff that you can customize in "Tag Specific Options".

Also, if you check "Show all settings", after "Tools", "Options",
you can scroll down to "Text Editor" and the "HTML",
for a bundle of additional settings you can customize.

You can even customize language-specific stuff.


Juan T. Llibre, ASP.NET MVP
ASP.NET FAQ : http://asp.net.do/faq/
Foros de ASP.NET en Español : http://asp.net.do/foros/
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<po*******@gmai l.com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ g14g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .
How customizable is the HTML editor in 2005 Juan?

Nov 19 '05 #9
The tag-specific formatting in VS2005 still needs a little work. End
tags wind up all clustered on one line in the same annoying manner that
VS2003 provided:

<ol>
<li>one</li>
<li>two</li></ol>

Even if you tell it to insert a line-break before the ending </ol> tag,
it doesn't happen... unless there is a space before the end tag. But
who is going to remember to separate all their tags with spaces?

Nov 19 '05 #10

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