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Workaround for HTML closing tag problem

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Mads Kristensen

26 Sep 2012 3:46 PM

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In Visual Studio 2012, HTML tags will fail to be automatically closed when using the following keyboard layouts:

Canadian Multilingual
Croatian
Czech
Hungarian
Latvian
Polish
Romanian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian

On these keyboards, the “>” character is typed by pressing AltGr+. or RightAlt+.

Work around

Open the Tools/Customize dialog
Click the “Keyboard…” button
In the “Show commands containing:” text field, enter: view.autoclose

The list view will display “View.AutoCloseTagOverride”
“Shortcuts for selected command” will display: Ctrl+Alt+. (HTML Editor Source View)

Press the “Remove” button
Press the “OK button
In the Customize dialog, press the “Close” button

Typing an HTML tag will now result in the closing tag being automatically inserted, as in VS 2010.

Visual Studio 2012, HTML

Comments

Damian Gronczewski

26 Sep 2012 10:57 PM

"On these keyboards, the “>” character is typed by pressing AltGr+. or RightAlt+."

I live in Poland and when i want type ">" I simple press Shift+.
ThomasX

27 Sep 2012 12:16 AM

Why should failing to close a tag depend on which modifcator is pressed? This sounds like a bug to me. Just fix it.
Dariusz Tarczynski

27 Sep 2012 2:51 AM

@Damian Gronczewski

Because, you are using "Polski Programisty" not "Polski" keyboard layout. That is not the same.
Đonny

27 Nov 2012 1:29 PM

Works, thanks a lot.

BTW: How comes that Visual Studio is so globalization-ignorant? This is not first problem with Czech keyboard. And I'm afraid this is even not the last.