removes <i> tags used by twitter-bootstrap

[ashkrosh]

In twitter bootstrap for putting an icon in place, it use a simple form like this: but when using tidy it removes all of these tags.

[sideshowbarker]

Is it putting out an empty <i></i> element?

If so, then to avoid that getting dropped, you need to run Tidy with the --drop-empty-elements option set to no, like this: tidy --drop-empty-elements no.

I couldn't see your example because markup gets stripped out of comments you post here, unless you put backticks around it, like this <i></i> (or whatever your example was).

[sideshowbarker]

It's been a month but have not heard back from ashkanr yet, so closing this for now.

ashkanr, if you have further questions or comment, please feel free to re-open this.

[ashkrosh]

sorry for not posting back here. Your suggested --drop-empty-elements=no did the job. Now it doesn't remove empty tags.
Thanks a lot :)

[sideshowbarker]

Cool -- glad to hear it's working for you as expected.

[mikekay01]

I know this is closed, but I'm having the same problem. Can you explain exactly how I run Tidy with the option mentioned above? I've tried putting it in the configuration file and that doesn't work. I suspect I'm doing it wrong. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated...

[craigbarnes]

On the command-line it's:

tidy --drop-empty-elements no

(not this).

In a configuration file it would be:

drop-empty-elements: no

But you may need to specify the config file to use with:

tidy -config /path/to/your/config

[mikekay01]

Actually that brings up a good question. I'm not sure where the plugin installed to, and I'm trying to use the "Custom" config file inside the plugin. Not sure how to create a new one or where they're at. Any clues

[craigbarnes]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "plugin", but I'll try to help if you give a little more context.