HTMLTag plug-in for Notepad++

Written by vor0nwe (Martijn Coppoolse), using Delphi 10.1

• Part of the Npp-plugins project
• Also hosted on http://fossil.2of4.net/npp_htmltag/

Introduction

This plug-in provides three core functions to Notepad++:

• HTML and XML tag jumping, like the built-in brace matching (Ctrl+B / Shift+Ctrl+B), and selection of tags and/or contents.
• HTML entity encoding/decoding (example: é to é)
• JS character encoding/decoding (example: é to \u00E9)

It originated in these requests on the Plugin Development forum on SourceForge.net:

• html tag highlighting - just like brackets...
• HTML entities in TextFX

Installation

As usual:
Extract the DLL and accompanying files to the plugins folder under %ProgramFiles%\Notepad++ (or wherever you're running Notepad++ from) or %AppData%\Notepad++, and (re)start Np++.

Usage

• Ctrl+T to select the matching tag;
• Shift+Ctrl+T to select both tags and the entire contents in between.
• Ctrl+E to encode all selected non-ASCII characters to their HTML entities;
• Shift+Ctrl+E to dEcode all selected HTML entities.
• Ctrl+J to encode all selected non-ASCII character to their Javascript entities;
• Shift+Ctrl+J to dEcode all selected JS entities.

All commands are available under the Plugins menu item 'HTML Tag'; the shortcut keys can be adjusted with the shortcut mapper.

Files

• HTMLTag.dll The 64-bits unicode version of the plug-in, for Notepad++ 64-bits version 7.0 and up.
• HTMLTag_unicode.dll The 32-bits unicode version of the plug-in, for Notepad++ 32-bits version 5.1 and up.
• HTMLTag_ansi.dll The ansi version of the plug-in, for Notepad++ versions up to and including version 5.0.3. Note that this version will not be supported after v0.4.0.
• HTMLTag-entities.ini This file contains the list(s) of entities that will be processed. For now, only the list headed with [HTML 4] will be used. This can be adjusted if you want to use other entities.
• HTMLTag-readme.txt The file you're reading now.