Html 4.01 strict instead of xhtml?

Can I stop asp.net from applying self closing tags?  I am trying to generate 
an html 4.01 strict page rather than an xhtml page and the w3 validator is 
unhappy about asp.net automatically translating this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="SkinStyle.aspx?SkinName=Test" type="text/css">

to this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="SkinStyle.aspx?SkinName=Test" type="text/css" 
/>

Date:Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:01:15 +1200 Author:

RE: Html 4.01 strict instead of xhtml?

Hi Andy,

Regarding on the ASP.NET/VS IDE html formatting question you mentioned 
they're actually controlled by the HTML Designer's formatting and 
validation setting. You can configure them through the following approaches:

For the automatically close tag behavior, you can set it through the below 
steps:

**open "tools ---> options" menu,

** in the opened dialog, choose the following path in left view:

Text Editor-->HTML-->Format--> 

and you'll find the "Auto Insert close Tag" check option

for the design-time validation(against html), you can also find the 
following setting:

Text Editor-->HTML-->Validation ---> "Target:"  

you can choose "HTML 4.01" as your ASPX page's target validation 
schema(instead of xhtml 1.0)

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

 

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Date:Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:35:00 GMT Author:

Re: Html 4.01 strict instead of xhtml?

Steven Cheng[MSFT] wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> Regarding on the ASP.NET/VS IDE html formatting question you mentioned
> they're actually controlled by the HTML Designer's formatting and
> validation setting. You can configure them through the following
> approaches:
>
> For the automatically close tag behavior, you can set it through the
> below steps:
>
> **open "tools ---> options" menu,
>
> ** in the opened dialog, choose the following path in left view:
>
> Text Editor-->HTML-->Format-->
>
> and you'll find the "Auto Insert close Tag" check option


Hi, thanks for your help! I just tried this but it didn't make a difference. 
The tag doesn't have self closing tags in the designer, only in the 
outputted html.

Date:Wed, 8 Aug 2007 09:23:56 +1200 Author:

Re: Html 4.01 strict instead of xhtml?

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your reply and the further clarify.

Actually, I originally assume that you just want to change the edit 
experience in IDE at design-time. So you also want the runtime html output 
be formated without close tag ( "/>"), right?  

I've performed some further test, actually, ASP.NET 2.0 runtime can let you 
specify the "xhtmlConformance" to a "Legacy" value so that the output will 
conform to ASP.NET 1.1 format, e.g.

===========
............
    <xhtmlConformance mode="Legacy"/>
  </system.web>
============

However, when running the aspx page, such as below:

============
<html  >
<head runat="server">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="SkinStyle.aspx?SkinName=Test" type="text/css">

    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
   <input type="button" >
    
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
==============

the <input type="button" >  can be keep without close tag, the <link ....> 
will be formated to <link .... />. It seems the runtime engine will 
transalte the tags in <head> section and ensure closing tag and there 
hasn't any declarative means to configure this.  

So far I think one way to overcome this behavior would be manually 
customize the ASP.NET page's response output through a Response Filter 
stream. You can attach a Filter for each Page's Response and modify the 
response content. Here is a web article demonstrate using response Filter 
to customize(format) page output:

http://aspnetresources.com/articles/HttpFilters.aspx
Producing XHTML-Compliant Pages With Response Filters

For your scenario, you may use it to change all the "/>" close tag to ">".  

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Date:Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:25:39 GMT Author:

Re: Html 4.01 strict instead of xhtml?

Steven Cheng[MSFT] wrote:

> So far I think one way to overcome this behavior would be manually
> customize the ASP.NET page's response output through a Response Filter
> stream. You can attach a Filter for each Page's Response and modify
> the response content. Here is a web article demonstrate using
> response Filter to customize(format) page output:
>
> http://aspnetresources.com/articles/HttpFilters.aspx
> Producing XHTML-Compliant Pages With Response Filters
>
> For your scenario, you may use it to change all the "/>" close tag to
> ">".


Perfect, thank you!

Date:Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:02:33 +1200 Author:

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