IDE Setting

~Bean~ · June 22nd, 2005, 10:43 AM

How do I turn off the automatic wrapping of my code in the VB.NET IDE?

Every time I switch from HTML view to Design view and back again the IDE wraps my code and at certain places takes away my blocks (inserts breaks and takes some away) and its really getting on my nerves...

e.g.,
before:[list]
    <li>
        My List
    </li>
</ul>

after:[list]
<li>My List
</li></ul>

???

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~Bean~ · July 8th, 2005, 12:55 PM

Nobody knows eh?

well now I noticed the IDE is also not placing quotes around attributes...

e.g.,
<asp:ListBox id=ListBox1 Width=100 runat="server"></asp:ListBox>

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planoie · July 8th, 2005, 08:40 PM

You can tell the IDE to always put attributes in the markup. There is also a setting for applying line breaks. These are settings under language preferences for HTML/XML:

Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> HTML/XML -> Format

-Peter

~Bean~ · July 11th, 2005, 11:26 AM

ty Peter!

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~Bean~ · July 13th, 2005, 08:18 AM

...I went through all the settings for each category

Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> HTML/XML -> Format
Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All languages
Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Basic
Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Plain text
etc.
and turned offf "Word wrap" and "Tabs" and line breaks...and turned on attribute quotes...

and I think its has fixed this from happening, but I noticed if the HTML or ASP controls are inside a Panel it still reformats them...

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