Support for custom tags

[metalgrid]

AngularJS uses alot of custom tags and also allows you to create your own. Is it possible to support custom tags, e.g. load an additional list of tags from a file? For example, I have a <submit-button> tag that translates to <input type="button">, but this tag is not supported and tidy5 bails.

[geoffmcl]

@metalgrid note I have added the special apostrophe to be able to see html...

Tidy already supports adding custom tags through the config file - see new-blocklevel-tags, new-empty-tags, new-inline-tags and new-pre-tags... You should be able to use these to add say <submit-button>, and others...

AngularJS is not yet supported by the W3C, so we would be unlikely to add this at this time.

But I would be willing to work with you to ensure the addition of such new tag through the config file works correctly... and maybe even enhanced such an external approach...

When you get a chance please experiment and test... add some sample config and html for testing... thanks...

[geoffmcl]

@metalgrid, have just tested the following html snippet -

<form>
First name:<br>
<input type="text" name="firstname">
<br>
<submit-button>
</form>

Using a config file -

tidy-mark: no
show-info: no 
new-empty-tags: submit-button
show-body-only: yes

Then using the command tidy5 -config input5\cfg_204-2.txt input5\in_204-2.html, and got the following output -

line 5 column 1 - Warning: <submit-button> is not approved by W3C
1 warning, 0 errors were found!

Info: Document content looks like HTML5
<form>First name:<br>
<input type="text" name="firstname"><br>
<submit-button></form>

This indicates tidy5 supports custom tags added through a config file... exiting only with a mild warning... which could be suppressed with --show-warnings no, or written to a warning file with -f warning.txt...

So am closing this for now... free free to re-open, add more samples, etc... but as far as I see tidy5 supports custom tags from an input config file.

[mtangoo]

adding this to docs will be good than digging up in issues

[geoffmcl]

@mtangoo you mean like this - http://www.htacg.org/tidy-html5/quickref.html#new-empty-tags ?

And viewing that reminds me we must also update those docs to version 5.0.0, although not much changed since that 4.9.28/35...

One very important thing, especially for those using libtidy in their own projects, and that is the re-naming of two header files - See Major API change - #224, #223, #221

1. renamed: "buffio.h" -> "tidybuffio.h"
2. renamed: "platform.h" -> "tidyplatform.h"

But we could always do with more, better documentation. Feel like writing some? I will certainly help getting it published...

And some more could be added to our very bare wiki - https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/wiki

A reminder that tidy also has it own home page - http://www.html-tidy.org/ - and welcome additions to these pages...

The source of these pages is in the gh-pages branch of the main repo - https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5 - Once you have cloned this repo, do -

• cd tidy-html5
• git checkout gh-pages
• git pull - optional - only needed if not first checkout

The html site is generated via yaml... see _config.yml... and the subdirectory index/_posts contains the current set of index pages...

And more programmer documentation on - http://www.html-tidy.org/developer/ - see subdirectory documentation/_posts for the current set of pages...

As stated, contributions, additions, corrections always very welcome...

[mtangoo]

You got it correct! @geoffmcl
Thank you for that!