Formatting code in Notepad++

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Is there a keyboard shortcut to format code in Notepad++ ?
I'm mainly working with HTML, CSS and Python code.

For example:

<title>{% block title %}    {% endblock %}</title>      
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>

To:

<head>
  <title>
    {% block title %}
    {% endblock %}
  </title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>


I remember Visual Studio doing it with Ctrl+K+D and NetBeans having the feature too but can't find it within Notepad++, if it can even do it.

notepad++ code-formatting html
14 Answers

ANSWER AS OF June 2019

Install the XML Tools plugin from the Plugin Admin (in Notepad++ 7.7 at least)

Then click Plugins -> XML Tools -> Pretty Print (XML Only with Line breaks)

That did it for me.

user_3734380

We can use the following shortcut in the latest version of notepad++ for formatting the code

Alt + Ctrl + Shift + B
user_18382050

No. Notepad++ can't format by itself. Formatting can easily be accomplished in many IDEs like Eclipse, NetBeans, Visual Studio [Code].

user_13084530

In Plugins > Plugin Admin > Search 'XML Tools' > Install.

The window will restart and install XML Tools under plugins.

Open your file and click Ctrl + Alt + Shift + B

user_91448460

NPP+ v7.9.1 with the latest version of XMLTools can't format exported VBA code from Office 2016/2019 Word. It puts all the code on the same line since it strips the CRLF out. Moreover, when you enable "auto validation" it errors out on the first VBA line that is, Attribute VB_Name = "The VBA module name". So any of the xml tool validations apparently can't be used for VBA validation.

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