[Nikolaos Giannopoulos]

If I have this snippet of JSP (I am just showing the 1st part of the file):

<%@include file="/WEB-INF/jsp/common/taglibs.jsp"%>

<fmt:message var="title" key="contactForm.title"/>
<s:layout-render name="/WEB-INF/jsp/common/layout_menu.jsp"
  title="${title}" currentSection="ContactList">
  <s:layout-component name="body">
    <s:form beanclass="${actionBean.class}">
      <%-- START:contactId --%>
      <div><s:hidden name="contact"/></div>
      <%-- END:contactId --%>
      <table class="form">
        <tr>
          <td><s:label for="contact.email"/>:</td>
          <td><s:text name="contact.email" class="required"/></td>
          <td class="error"><s:errors field="contact.email"/></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><s:label for="contact.firstName"/>:</td>
          <td><s:text name="contact.firstName"/></td>
          <td class="error"><s:errors field="contact.firstName"/></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><s:label for="contact.lastName"/>:</td>
          <td><s:text name="contact.lastName"/></td>
          <td class="error"><s:errors field="contact.lastName"/></td>

</tr>

and I format it I get:

<%@include file="/WEB-INF/jsp/common/taglibs.jsp"%>

<fmt:message var="title" key="contactForm.title" />
<s:layout-render name="/WEB-INF/jsp/common/layout_menu.jsp" title="${title}" currentSection="ContactList">
    <s:layout-component name="body">
        <s:form beanclass="${actionBean.class}">
            <%-- START:contactId --%>
            <div>
                <s:hidden name="contact" />
            </div>
            <%-- END:contactId --%>
            <table class="form">
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        <s:label for="contact.email" />
                        :
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <s:text name="contact.email" class="required" />
                    </td>
                    <td class="error">
                        <s:errors field="contact.email" />
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        <s:label for="contact.firstName" />
                        :
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <s:text name="contact.firstName" />
                    </td>
                    <td class="error">
                        <s:errors field="contact.firstName" />
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        <s:label for="contact.lastName" />
                        :
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <s:text name="contact.lastName" />
                    </td>
                    <td class="error">
                        <s:errors field="contact.lastName" />
                    </td>
                </tr>    

This is the SAME block of JSP code in both cases.

The formatting is unfortunately terrible. X/HTML and XML really differ in how they SHOULD be formatted as additional line feeds in X/HTML may affect flow and also make the X/HTML harder to read and less compact (yes displaying a web page a 10000 times adds up if you have 20/30/etc… additional line feeds on the page).

As for XML this type of formatting is fine and actually helps with legibility IMO.

My biggest issue though is clarity and looks for X/HTML. How can I adjust this in MyEclipse so that say for example <td>’s stay on the same line?

P.S. I have seen complaints that go back to 2004/5 and MyEclipse 3.5/4. I really hope there has been some significant improvement since then…. 🙂

[support-joy]

nikolaos2012,

Thank you for bringing this to our notice. I shall escalate this to dev team members for further investigation.

[Nikolaos Giannopoulos]

Joy,

2 weeks have passed and I am curious what has come of your escalation to the dev team members????

[Gaurav Kumar]

@support-joy wrote:

nikolaos2012,

Thank you for bringing this to our notice. I shall escalate this to dev team members for further investigation.

The JSP formatter is terrible.
I have knack of formatting code after writing few lines … and later I have to press undo because JSP formatter is really stupid.

Plz fix this ASAP. I am using the latest MyEclipse v9.0 (Build id: 9.0-20110318)

[support-joy]

gauravbaadshah,

I have raised the priority of this issue. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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