[Greg]

I can’t seem to find where I can change which elements put opening and closing tags on the same line and which elements go on different lines when I use the auto-format feature in my jsp files.

Really I am trying to keep my td tags from auto formatting to a single line. For example, I have the code:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>
            Stuff
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

when I use auto format it changes it to:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>Stuff</td>
    </tr>
</table>

In the above sample it doesn’t make that much of a difference but when I add a lot of content to my td tags it makes it a little cluttered. How can I change this behavior?

[support-swapna]

gmascherino ,

Can you answer some more questions for us ?

1) Which version of MyEclipse are you working with ?

2) This is how the auto format works in Eclipse 3.7. You will see the same behavior in MyEclipse 10 as it is based on Eclipse 3.7. I am afraid there is no parameter to configure for this particular scenario.

3) You can configure your own formatter. Here is the link with detailed instructions :
http://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Default-Format-Settings-in-Eclipse

For JSP formatting , you can configure parameters in Windows > Preferences > MyEclipse > Files and Editors > JSP > JSP Source. Click on the link for your kind of JSP (HTML or XML content).

[Greg]

I just upgraded to MyEclipse 10. I was using 9.1 and it was auto-formatting correctly.

[support-swapna]

gmascherino ,

Its the Eclipse feature which has changed in this respect in Eclipse 3.7. I am afraid we would not be able to help in this case.

Do let us know if you have any other issues.

[Author]

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