Formatting code in Notepad++
HtmlNotepad++Code FormattingHtml Problem Overview
Is there a keyboard shortcut to format code in Notepad++ ?
I'm mainly working with HTML, CSS and Python code.
For example:
<title>{% block title %} {% endblock %}</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
To:
<head>
<title>
{% block title %}
{% endblock %}
</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
I remember Visual Studio doing it with Ctrl+K+D and NetBeans having the feature too but can't find it within Notepad++, if it can even do it.
Html Solutions
Solution 1 - Html
TextFX -> HTML Tidy -> Tidy: Reindent XML
Remember to have the HTML code selected before you do this.
Solution 2 - Html
there is such a plugin as UniversalIndentGUI, it can be installed right from the plugin manager and has possibilities to reindent the most used programming languages.
Solution 3 - Html
If you go to TextFX menu and go to TextFX Edit, you will see a menu item Reindent C++ Code.
That will also format C# code.
Solution 4 - Html
ANSWER AS OF June 2019
Install the XML Tools plugin from the Plugin Admin (in Notepad++ 7.7 at least)
Then click Plugins -> XML Tools -> Pretty Print (XML Only with Line breaks)
That did it for me.
Solution 5 - Html
Here is a list of the available shortcuts in Notepad++.
In case your desired functionality is not available, you are able to define own macros and assign them to a custom shortcut (i am not used to use macros).
UPDATE: I will post the shortcuts here in case the link gets invalid:
Shortcut Command
Ctrl-C Copy
Ctrl-X Cut
Ctrl-V Paste
Ctrl-Z Undo
Ctrl-Y Redo
Ctrl-A Select All
Ctrl-F Launch Find Dialog
Ctrl-H Launch Find / Replace Dialog
Ctrl-D Duplicate Current Line
Ctrl-L Delete Current Line
Ctrl-T Switch the current line position with the previous line position
F3 Find Next
Shft-F3 Find Previous
Ctrl-Shft-F Find in Files
Ctrl-F3 Find (volatil) Next
Ctrl-Shft-F3 Find (volatil) Previous
Ctrl-Shft-I Incremental Search
Ctrl-S Save File
Ctrl-Alt-S Save As
Ctrl-Shft-S Save All
Ctrl-O Open File
Ctrl-N New File
Ctrl-F2 Toggle Bookmark
F2 Go To Next Bookmark
Shft-F2 Go To Previous Bookmark
Ctrl-G Launch GoToLine Dialog
Ctrl-W Close Current Document
Alt-Shft-Arrow keys or Alt + Left mouse click Column Mode Select
F5 Launch Run Dialog
Ctrl-Space Launch CallTip ListBox
Alt-Space Launch Word Completion ListBox
Tab (selection of several lines) Insert Tabulation or Space (Indent)
Shft-Tab (selection of several lines) Remove Tabulation or Space (outdent)
Ctrl-(Keypad-/Keypad+) or Ctrl + mouse wheel butto Zoom in (+ or up) and Zoom out (- or down)
Ctrl-Keypad/ Restore the original size from zoom
F11 Toggle Full Screen Mode
Ctrl-Tab Next Document
Ctrl-Shft-Tab Previous Document
Ctrl-Shft-Up Move Current Line Up
Ctrl-Shft-Down Move Current Line Down
Ctrl-Alt-F Collapse the Current Level
Ctrl-Alt-Shft-F Uncollapse the Current Level
Alt-0 Fold All
Alt-(1~8) Collapse the Level (1~8)
Alt-Shft-0 Unfold All
Alt-Shft-(1~8) Uncollapse the Level (1~8)
Ctrl-BackSpace Delete to start of word
Ctrl-Delete Delete to end of word
Ctrl-Shft-BackSpace Delete to start of line
Ctrl-Shft-Delete Delete to end of line
Ctrl-U Convert to lower case
Ctrl-Shft-U Convert to UPPER CASE
Ctrl-B Go to matching brace
Ctrl-Shft-R Start to record /Stop recording the macro
Ctrl-Shft-P Play recorded macro
Ctrl-Q Block comment/uncomment
Ctrl-Shft-Q Stream comment
Ctrl-Shft-T Copy current line to clipboard
Ctrl-P Print
Alt-F4 Exit
Ctrl-I Split Lines
Ctrl-J Join Lines
Ctrl-Alt-R Text Direction RTL
Ctrl-Alt-L Text Direction LT
F1 About
Solution 6 - Html
The latest plugin is tidy2, which can be installed through Plugins>Plugin Manager>Show Plugin Manager.
I suggest editing config 1 and setting quote-marks: no, especially if you have script that makes use of quotes.
Also, tidying more than once can result in inserting ampersands the first time and then replacing the ampersands the second time. You may want to play with the config to get it to where you need it.
Solution 7 - Html
For JavaScript Formatting I use Notepad ++ JSMin Plugin.Quite Handy
Solution 8 - Html
This isn't quite the answer you were looking for, but it's the solution I came to when I had the same question.
[update - I'm using vscode now for everything. I think it works better in a lot of cases.]
I'm a pretty serious Notepad++ user, so don't take this the wrong way. I have started using NetBeans 8 to develop websites in addition to Notepad++ because you can set it to autoformat on save for all your languages, and there are a ton of configuration options for how the formatting looks, down to the most minute detail. You might look into it and find it is a worthy tool to use in conjunction with notepad++. It's also open source, completely free, and has a bunch of plugins and other useful things like automatically compiling Sass if you use that too. It's definitely not as quick as NP++ so it's not great for small edits, but it can be nice for a long coding session.
Solution 9 - Html
In my notepad++, it seems TextFX needs a perl environment to format HTML files. Tidy2 demands nothing so I think it's more handy.
Solution 10 - Html
If all you need is alignment, try the plugin called Code Alignment.
You can get it from the built-in plugin manager in Notepad++.
Solution 11 - Html
We can use the following shortcut in the latest version of notepad++ for formatting the code
Alt + Ctrl + Shift + B
Solution 12 - Html
No. Notepad++ can't format by itself. Formatting can easily be accomplished in many IDEs like Eclipse, NetBeans, Visual Studio [Code].
Solution 13 - Html
In Plugins > Plugin Admin > Search 'XML Tools' > Install.
The window will restart and install XML Tools under plugins.
Open your file and click Ctrl + Alt + Shift + B
Solution 14 - Html
NPP+ v7.9.1 with the latest version of XMLTools can't format exported VBA code from Office 2016/2019 Word. It puts all the code on the same line since it strips the CRLF out. Moreover, when you enable "auto validation" it errors out on the first VBA line that is, Attribute VB_Name = "The VBA module name". So any of the xml tool validations apparently can't be used for VBA validation.