Html 4.01 strict instead of xhtml?

[Andy Bell]

Can I stop asp.net from applying self closing tags? I am trying to generate
an html 4.01 strict page rather than an xhtml page and the w3 validator is
unhappy about asp.net automatically translating this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="SkinStyle.aspx?SkinName=Test" type="text/css">

to this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="SkinStyle.aspx?SkinName=Test" type="text/css"
/>

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Andy,

Regarding on the ASP.NET/VS IDE html formatting question you mentioned
they're actually controlled by the HTML Designer's formatting and
validation setting. You can configure them through the following approaches:

For the automatically close tag behavior, you can set it through the below
steps:

**open "tools ---options" menu,

** in the opened dialog, choose the following path in left view:

Text Editor-->HTML-->Format-->

and you'll find the "Auto Insert close Tag" check option

for the design-time validation(against html), you can also find the
following setting:

Text Editor-->HTML-->Validation ---"Target:"

you can choose "HTML 4.01" as your ASPX page's target validation
schema(instead of xhtml 1.0)

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

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[Andy Bell]

Steven Cheng[MSFT] wrote:

Hi Andy,

Regarding on the ASP.NET/VS IDE html formatting question you mentioned
they're actually controlled by the HTML Designer's formatting and
validation setting. You can configure them through the following
approaches:

For the automatically close tag behavior, you can set it through the
below steps:

**open "tools ---options" menu,

** in the opened dialog, choose the following path in left view:

Text Editor-->HTML-->Format-->

and you'll find the "Auto Insert close Tag" check option

Hi, thanks for your help! I just tried this but it didn't make a difference.
The tag doesn't have self closing tags in the designer, only in the
outputted html.

[Andy Bell]

Steven Cheng[MSFT] wrote:

So far I think one way to overcome this behavior would be manually
customize the ASP.NET page's response output through a Response Filter
stream. You can attach a Filter for each Page's Response and modify
the response content. Here is a web article demonstrate using
response Filter to customize(format) page output:

http://aspnetresources.com/articles/HttpFilters.aspx
Producing XHTML-Compliant Pages With Response Filters

For your scenario, you may use it to change all the "/>" close tag to
">".

Perfect, thank you!

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

You're welcome :)

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead