Find matching HTML tag

[Ryan Williams]

One thing I noticed that PSPad can do is highlight two parts of one HTML tag. So for example, if you have a million nested <table> tables and need to find the </table> that matches a certain one, this can be done within seconds as they're both highlighted -- just like the bracket matcher in WeBuilder.

This is a fairly superb feature and I'd absolutely love to see it in WeBuilder. With that said, is there any way I'm missing of doing this already, or tracking down matching tags via some kind of search?

[chrisjlocke]

Unfortunately, no. You can however highlight all text within a block, which could help identify the end of the block. A slight help ... or a hinderance...

[syrupcore]

hopefully you're not nesting tables anymore! there's a better way to build pages and you don't need to sort through all that code.

I use what chris suggested to select the entire tag block - at the end of the selection is the closing tag.

I really really really try to comment my closing containers when building the template though.

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<div id="header">

</div> <!-- /header -->

<div id="content">

</div> <!-- /content-->

before I even put anything in it.

[Ryan Williams]

Yeah, there's definitely no substitute for clean code, and when tables are necessary for compatibility they can always be written in a reasonably semantic manner. However, I'm often given HTML that was generated by Dreamweaver and the like to work with, and the table structure is an absolute nightmare to work out.

I had no idea about the select block function though, and that works pretty much as well as I need. Thanks a lot!