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indent/html.vim : alternative html indent script

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created by
Andy Wokula
 
script type
indent
 
description
This script is based on the distributed indent scripts for HTML (and CSS).  The original script becomes very slow when indenting more than a few lines, thus here is an improvement.


Customization:  Variables you can set in the vimrc.  Given values are examples to change the defaults.

  Note: This applies to v0.6 (!).  Earlier version used :IndHtmlLocal for customization.  Details can always be found in the script header.

  You can set the indent for the first line after <script> and <style> "block tags" (default "zero"):

      :let g:html_indent_script1 = "inc"
      :let g:html_indent_style1 = "inc"

      VALUE MEANING
      "zero" zero indent
      "auto" auto indent (same indent as the blocktag)
      "inc" auto indent + one indent step

  The following <tags> increase the indent (for what follows) per default (taken from the original script, but slightly modified):
      a, abbr, acronym, address, b, bdo, big, blockquote, button, caption, center, cite, code, colgroup, del, dfn, dir, div, dl, em, fieldset, font, form, frameset, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, i, iframe, ins, kbd, label, legend, map, menu, noframes, noscript, object, ol, optgroup, q, s, samp, select, small, span, strong, sub, sup, table, textarea, title, tt, u, ul, var, th, td, tr, tfoot, thead
      (added with v0.8): area, article, aside, audio, bdi, canvas, command, datalist, details, embed, figure, footer, header, group, keygen, mark, math, meter, nav, output, progress, ruby, section, svg, texture, time, video, wbr, text

  You can add further tags with

      :let g:html_indent_inctags = "html,body,head,tbody"

      " the original script uses the g:html_indent_strict variable to include these tags

  You can remove tags with

      :let g:html_indent_autotags = "th,td,tr,tfoot,thead"

      " the original script uses the g:html_indent_strict_table variable to include these tags

  Default value is empty for both variables.  The default tags that increase indent are defined once per session only.


Problems and Bugs:

  - still no indent rules for attributes spanning several lines
  - sometimes cindent() thinks it is better to use zero indent for what follows ...
  - some tags increase indent per default, but their closing tag is optional, e.g. <td> -- the script cannot detect missing closing tags

Suggestions, bug reports welcome (I'm not writing HTML regularly).

2014 Jul 04: Vim 7.4.356 or later includes a descendant of this script (the official script is now maintained by Bram and includes massive changes)
2013 Jun 13: Vim 7.3.1180 or later includes the latest version of this script.
 
install details
Unix: copy script to ~/.vim/indent
Win: copy script to ~\vimfiles\indent

Enable filetype detection and use of indent plugins:
    :filetype indent on
 

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package script version date Vim version user release notes
html.vim 0.10 2014-01-27 7.0 Andy Wokula added b:html_indent_usestate; and a bug fix
html.vim 0.8 2011-09-11 7.0 Andy Wokula added HTML5 tags (thx to J. Zuckerman)
html.vim 0.6 2008-04-28 7.0 Andy Wokula customization revised, no other changes
html.vim 0.5 2008-03-09 7.0 Andy Wokula Fixed: 'indk' when breaking a line with Enter (e.g. given the line "<div><center></center>", inserting Enter after "<center>" now adds an indent for the new line)
Change: line must start with a closing tag (old: any tag) to get same indent as the starting tag
html.vim 0.4 2007-11-21 7.0 Andy Wokula Added: configurable indent for the first line after <script> or <style>
html.vim 0.3.2 2007-11-21 7.0 Andy Wokula Another dumb bug fixed: didn't match tag names with digits (h1-h6)
goody: simple arg-completion for IndHtmlLocal
html.vim 0.3.1 2007-11-20 7.0 Andy Wokula Bugfix: didn't detect "-->" as end of region
html.vim 0.3 2007-11-19 7.0 Andy Wokula now indents <style> regions
html.vim 0.2 2007-11-18 7.0 Andy Wokula Initial upload
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