What is the best Emacs mode for HTML 4.01 strict editing?

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  •  08-07-2019
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Question

I have been using nxml-mode to edit XHTML. However, it does not work very well for HTML4 documents whose tags don't have to close. Has anybody found a good Emacs mode for editing these files?

Example document:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en-gb">
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    <title>Test</title>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>
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Solution

I find html-mode works quite well. You might also want to consider html-helper-mode, which has a lot more features than plain html-mode.

OTHER TIPS

I used html-helper-mode for awhile, but switched back to html-mode because the indenting in html-helper-mode was acting funny and I didn't have the time to troubleshoot it. So my vote is for html-mode as well.

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