Oxygen XML Forum

This is a minor issue, but it's cause me grief: I'm working in HTML and DocBook primarily, and when I use the Indent feature to automatically clean up my XML or HTML for reading in the Text view, Oxygen adds newlines to tags with attributes. I don't want that.

In the Preferences pane, I have unchecked both "Break long attributes" and "Break line before Attributes", but Format & Indent still adds random line breaks to some (but not all) tags with attributes. How can I stop this? Am I missing another preferences setting?

Thanks for the help!

Hello,

I'm afraid there isn't an option that can specifically prevent Oxygen from inserting line breaks between attributes. You could increase the line width(in Options -> Preferences -> Editor -> Format) until all your attributes fit on a single line but this will also affect how the rest of the document is formatted.

But If I may ask, why do you want to keep all the attributes on a single line?
XML-wise it makes no difference, and all the line breaks do is improve readability.

Regards,
Adrian

It's just a readability issue for me, and I'm still relatively new to this stuff, so maybe its silly. But I don't like it when the attributes on my inline elements make the line break (my lines have lots of text and get long)--I like having block elements on their own lines. I know it doesn't make a difference to the processing of the file, but when I'm trying to find something, it makes it harder to scan.

Hi,

Go to Editor > Format, and change:

"Line Width Format and Indent" to a large number (e.g. 1000 - default is 100). So, line width smaller than 1000 will not be broken to several lines.