HTML official elements not recognized by Notepad++

Ivan Miller

I’m sorry that recognition (and syntax highlighting) does not work for some official HTML elements like <main> <math> <picture> <template> and <svg>.

These 5 tags are present in the W3C standards.

Is it possible to correct this please?
Thank you.

Claudia Frank

@Ivan-Miller

are you using the latest version because 4 out of the 5 are highlighted.
math is the one which is missing.

Do you know that you can fix this yourself?
For highlighting you need to edit the file langs.xml
which is either under %APPDATA%\notepad++\ or under
the installation directory (depends how you installed the npp)

For recognition you need to edit the html api file which is located
under the install_directory\plugins\APIs\html.xml.

In both files, make sure you put the new content in the correct place,
means take care about the sorting math needs to be placed between
marquee and maxlength (langs.xml).

If you feel this needs to be officially addressed open an issue at github.

Cheers
Claudia

PeterJones

Interesting,

I have NPP 7.2.2 (not the latest, but close), and it didn’t have any of the tags @Ivan-Miller listed as missing. When I looked at the install-directory langs.model.xml file, it did include those (except <math>).

So apparently, updating NPP doesn’t automatically update the %APPDATA% file (understandable, since some people have customized it, and the updater was probably made to not clobber those) – but that means that just “using the latest version” isn’t always sufficient to get all the updates provided in that version.

I copied the langs.model.xml to %APPDATA%\Notepad++\langs.xml, and that fixed the highlighting of those elements for me, so I hope they will for Ivan, as well.

dail

@PeterJones

isn’t always sufficient to get all the updates provided in that version.

You are correct. This has bugged me for a while. langs.model.xml is only used if langs.xml doesn’t exist. That’s why if a user reports their styling is incorrect it is usually a good idea to delete langs.xml (but custom user settings could get lost).

See: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/1205

Claudia Frank

@PeterJones

you are right, this is one of npps mantras.
Don’t change customized config files.
Thx for clarification.

Cheers
Claudia