Auto close of html tags and jsp, php, asp tags in notepad++ and a semicolon at the end of the line written of scriptlets

Question

I use notepad++ and I like it

I specifically want it to do this :

1. Close automatically HTML tags. (eg. </div>)
2. Close tags after starting with proper indention for .jsp, .asp, .php files. (eg.<% %>, <?php ?>)
3. Put a semicolon at the line end by default (whenever I start a new line inside <?php ?>)

For (1), it is really frustrating for me, when I want to write HTML tags in php files. I upgraded to 6.5.1, and tried the TextFX, but it works only with files which have the extension .html or .htm

Could someone please guide me in achieving these features?

Solution 1

Regarding auto-closing html tags, for me only having html as the language didn't do the trick.

(This answer is incomplete, but is too large for a comment given the images.)

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Changing the auto-complete preferences, as below, worked:

• Settings > Preferences

• Auto-Completion tab > Auto-Insert section > html/xml close tag

I use Notepad++ v6.5.2

Solution 2

If you are editing a PHP file and want it to auto-complete the HTML tags, in addition to turning on "Auto-insert HTML/XML tags" in Preferences, you have to change the programming language to HTML while editing that file.

In Notepad++, go to the Language menu, and find HTML and click on it.

This will set the file's language to HTML so that auto-complete tags will work in a PHP file.

Even with the language set to HTML, it still highlights anything in <?php ?> tags as PHP code, and it does not affect auto-closing of brackets, if you have that enabled.

You must have Auto-Insert html/xml close tags on, as mentioned in Noha's answer.

• Settings > Preferences
• Auto-Completion tab > Auto-Insert section > html/xml close tag