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Tip #59: Did you know…How you can automatically format unformatted HTML on paste in VS?

Do you copy/ paste a lot of unformatted HTML content in to your web forms? Do you always format HTML after pasting such content? There is an easy way to automatically format HTML on paste in VS. Here is how you do it.

In Tools->Options dialog, go to Text Editor->HTML->Miscellaneous page. Check ‘Format HTML on paste’ option.

FormatHTMLonPaste

After checking this option on, whenever you paste unformatted HTML, it gets formatted automatically.

Ranjini Mathrubootham

SDET, Visual Web Developer

Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:36 PM by WebDevTools

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Tip #59: Did you know???How you can automatically format unformatted HTML on paste in VS? | Microsoft Share Point said:

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# April 29, 2009 4:56 PM

What's New said:

Do you copy/ paste a lot of unformatted HTML content in to your web forms? Do you always format HTML

# April 29, 2009 7:05 PM

Saif Khan said:

This is good to know! Thanks for sharing.

# April 30, 2009 5:10 PM

Visual Studio Hacks said:

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# May 5, 2009 10:31 AM

Mohd Ghufran said:

Yes i do copy/ paste a lot of unformatted HTML content. Thanks for help.

;-)

# June 15, 2009 5:29 AM

Vijay said:

This is good to know! Thanks for sharing.

# June 16, 2009 12:56 AM
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