Html 4.01 strict instead of xhtml?

A

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"
/>
 
S

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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A

Andy Bell

Steven said:
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
Click to expand...

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.
 
S

Steven Cheng[MSFT]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your reply and the further clarify.

Actually, I originally assume that you just want to change the edit
experience in IDE at design-time. So you also want the runtime html output
be formated without close tag ( "/>"), right?

I've performed some further test, actually, ASP.NET 2.0 runtime can let you
specify the "xhtmlConformance" to a "Legacy" value so that the output will
conform to ASP.NET 1.1 format, e.g.

===========
............
<xhtmlConformance mode="Legacy"/>
</system.web>
============

However, when running the aspx page, such as below:

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

<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<input type="button" >

</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
==============

the <input type="button" > can be keep without close tag, the <link ....>
will be formated to <link .... />. It seems the runtime engine will
transalte the tags in <head> section and ensure closing tag and there
hasn't any declarative means to configure this.

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 ">".

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 
A

Andy Bell

Steven said:
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
">".
Click to expand...

Perfect, thank you!
 
S

Steven Cheng[MSFT]

You're welcome :)

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
 

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