Is there a way to disable auto-formatting

[John Holmes]

I saw a similar post that went unanswered about a month ago. I am annoyed by
the auto-formatting that occurs when creating my form. I'll make changes to
the code (HTML tab) and then view them in Design mode and when I go back to
the HTML mode the code I just typed in has been reformatted. It doesn't
always do it the same either. I usually don't capitalize tag names and it
will auto-capitalize the ending tags sometimes. I've gone through options
and unchecked everything and under HTML/XML-Format everything is unchecked
and Capitalization for Tags and Attributes are set to 'as entered'.

Any help would be appreciated.

John

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

No, you'll have to wait for .NET 2.0 (codenamed Whidbey) that is scheduled
to be released next year.
Until then we must live with the HTML auto reformatting "feature."

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Thanks for Steve's clarify on this.

Hi John,

As Steve has mentioned, the problem that VS.NET will auto-formatting the
html source when switching between design-view and html-view is a known
issue of the VS.NET's current version and which hasn't been
fixed now. But this issue is to be fixed in the next version of the VS.NET
(Whidbey):
#Preview of Web Development with Visual Studio Whidbey-----Better Source
Code Editing
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/webdevinwhidbey.asp?fram
e=true#webdevinwhidbey_topic1

Also, since this issue still remain in the current versions, I apologize
for any inconvenience it brings you.


Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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