How To Auto-Format Indent XML HTML in Notepad

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Is there a way to re-indent a block of code   I m looking for something similar to Ctrl Shift F in Eclipse  Auto-Format Indent    To be clear    I already know how to format XML outside of Notepad    Eclipse works fine  as mentioned  so I don t need a bunch of links to other XML-formatting tools   I m specifically working with XML and HTML  Ideally  there s a keybinding as convenient as the one in Eclipse  so I don t have to break my workflow    I already know about NppAutoIndent - it won t work  as I m working with XML  HTML and CSS

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Since I upgraded to 6 3 2  I use XML Tools   install XML Tools via the Plugin Admin  Plugins   Plugins Admin    Then search for  quot XML Tools quot   check its box and click the  quot Install quot  button   use the shortcut Ctrl Alt Shift B  or menu   Plugins   XML Tools   Pretty Print     In older versions  menu   TextFX   HTML Tidy   Tidy  Reindent XML

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Just install the latest notepad   and install indent By fold  On the menu bar select Plugins -  Plugins Admin and selct indent By fold and the install  Works finest

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Install Xml Tools plug-in on notepad    Open the menu plugins-plugins Admin  then search for XML Tools  click on the upper right corner to install   Use shortcut keys Ctrl   Alt   Shift   B Use online sites  such as XML Formatter

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It s been the third time that I install Windows and npp and after some time I realize the tidy function no longer work  So I google for a solution  come to this thread  then with the help of few more so threads I finally fix it  I ll put a summary of all my actions once and for all    Install TextFX plugin  Plugins -  Plugin Manager -  Show Plugin Manager  Select TextFX Characters and install  After a restart of npp  the menu  TextFX  should be visible   credits   remipod   Install libtidy dll by pasting the Config folder from an old npp package  Follow instructions in this answer   After having a Config folder in your latest npp installation destination  typically C  Program Files  x86  Notepad   plugins   npp needs write access to that folder  Right click Config folder -  Properties -  Security tab -  select Users  click Edit -  check Full control to allow read write access  Note that you need administrator privileges to do that  Restart npp and verify TextFX -  TextFX HTML Tidy -  Tidy  Reindent XML works

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I had to update the proxy settings under Plugins -  Plugin Manager -  Show Plugin Manager -  Settings to see any PlugIns in the  Available  list   After that  installing  XML Tools  was easy and did the requested job as described above

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For those who don t know  npp has a lot of support from plugins and other projects  You can download those plugins from SourceForge     You need XML Tools to format your text in n    After you have downloaded XML Tools      Exit Notepad    Go To  C  Program File Notepad        Your N   installed folder    Place below files from xml tools which you downloaded in the npp root folder by copy replace      Go To    Plugins subfolder and place below downloaded file     Restart and enjoy     Ctrl   Alt   Shft   B to format

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To directly answer the OP  take a look at this guy s site   Thomas Hunter Notepad   Tidy for XML   Simple steps to follow and you get very nice formatting of your XML right inside NPP   So far the only anomaly I ve found is with nested self closing elements EG     lt OuterTag gt Text for outer element lt SelfClosingTag  gt  lt  OuterTag gt    Will be tidied up to     lt OuterTag gt Text for outer element  lt SelfClosingTag  gt  lt  OuterTag gt    There may be a way to fix this  but for the time being  it s managed to reduce the number of lines in my document by 300k and this particular anomaly can be worked around

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I m using Notepad 7 6 with  Plugin Admin  and I could not find XML Tools  I had to install it manually like  some-java-guy did in his answer except that my plugins folder was located here  C  Users  lt my username gt  AppData Local Notepad   plugins In that directory I created a new directory  named XmlTools  and copied XMLTools dll there   And I copied all dependencies to the Notepad   directory in Program files

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Not exactly a solution but a workaround  Notepad    doesn t provide any such feature by default  But you can use some online tools to autoformat text like https   www freeformatter com xml-formatter html  It helps

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Install Tidy2 plugin  I have Notepad   v6 2 2  and Tidy2 works fine so far

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