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Bug 355748

Summary:	[formatting] Formatter ignores inline setting for tag a (as in <a href=...); results in newline and unwanted spaces in rendered page.
Product:	[WebTools] WTP Source Editing	Reporter:	Zach Toups <toupsz>
Component:	wst.html	Assignee:	wst.html <wst.html-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Nick Sandonato <nsand.dev>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	thatnitind, toupsz, zalapa
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	Future
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
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Description Zach Toups

2011-08-24 12:35:46 EDT

Build Identifier: 20110615-0604

Formatting an HTML page results in additional, unwanted spaces because the formatter introduces a newline after the </a> tag. The tag is specified as inline in the formatter settings. The same thing does not happen, for example, with the </i> tag, which is also listed as inline.

example:
PRE-format:
Please click <a href="hi.html">this link</a>.

POST-format:
Please click
<a href="hi.html">this link</a>
.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an HTML file and open with the HTML editor.
2. Create a pair of <a> tags that should NOT have a space after the closing tag.
3. Run Source > Format

Comment 1 Salvador Zalapa

2013-07-25 10:29:11 EDT

This particular example works as design since a newLine should be add if the parent Node is the DOCUMENT_NODE. On the other hand if you have the following: 

<html>
<a>test</a>.
</html>

the format will honor the inline element, and do not add an extra new line. I think that this bug should be marked as resolved.

Comment 2 Salvador Zalapa

2013-09-11 09:51:18 EDT

Resolving due to my last comment.