I'll see what I can do!
On Feb 12, 7:46 pm, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This may be added as an option in the future. If you'd like to work up a
> patch, that future would probably come a lot sooner ;).
>
> - Nathan
>
> Mike Ferrier wrote:
> > Woops, that first snippet of Haml is invalid. It should read:
>
> > #thingie.widget
> > how come?
> > #what.why because I said so.
>
> > Mike
>
> > On Feb 12, 3:07 pm, "Mike Ferrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> I like Haml because it makes my generated HTML look pretty. But here's
> >> something that would make my HTML even easier to read: tag close
> >> commenting. Basically, it would be an html comment after the end tag
> >> of a block-level element which would indicate to me, the guy reading
> >> the HTML, which tag was being closed. This is currently indicated by
> >> the indent level, which is great, except when you have a complex
> >> layout and your element open and close tags are 50 lines apart -- it
> >> starts to become hard to visually line up the indenting.
>
> >> With tag close commenting, Haml could display the tag type, plus some
> >> or all of the tag attributes, in an HTML comment beside the closing
> >> tag, like this:
>
> >> #thingie.widget how come?
> >> #what.why because I said so.
>
> >> Would render to:
>
> >> <div id='thingie' class='widget>how come?
> >> <div id='what' class='why'>because I said so. </div>
> >> </div><!-- end of %div#thingie.widget -->
>
> >> No comment is needed on an opened-and-closed-on-the-same-line tag, of
> >> course.
>
> >> And again, to get an idea of the point of a feature like this, you
> >> need to apply it to a larger example. Here's some rendered HAML with
> >> tag close commenting added in:
>
> >> <div class='what'>
> >> <div class='rate' id='rate_button_1' onclick="toggle_thingie('1')">
> >> <div class='rate_pane' id='thing_1'>
> >> <div id='rate_number'>0</div>
> >> <div id='rate_container'>
> >> <div class="rate_things trans_inactive" id="rate_5"> </
> >> div>
> >> <div class="rate_things trans_inactive" id="rate_4"> </
> >> div>
> >> <div class="rate_things trans_inactive" id="rate_3"> </
> >> div>
> >> <div class="rate_things trans_inactive" id="rate_2"> </
> >> div>
> >> <div class="rate_things trans_inactive" id="rate_1"> </
> >> div>
> >> </div><!-- end of %div#rate_container -->
> >> <div class='rate_pane_bonus'>select an option!!</div>
> >> </div><!-- end of %div#thing_1.rate_pane -->
> >> </div><!-- end of %div#rate_button_1.rate
> >> <div class='number'><a href="/posts/1850">Post #1850</a></div>
> >> </div><!-- end of %div.what-->
>
> >> Also, this wouldn't really need a Haml syntax addition, it could be as
> >> simple as toggling a config value.
>
> >> What do you guys think?
>
> >> Mike
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