Provide an output setting to render all elements as block

[jkowalczyk]

If enable, the HTML output methods will consider all tags as block.
Example 1:

<a href="myLink.html"> <img alt="My image" src="myImage.jpg" /> </a>

would be rendered as follows

<a href="myLink.html"> 
  <img alt="My image" src="myImage.jpg" /> 
</a>

Example 2:

  <td colspan="2"><a title="link title" href="myLink.html">My Link title</a> anything else</td>

would be rendered as follows

  <td colspan="2">
    <a title="link title" href="myLink.html">My Link title</a>
    anything else
  </td>

[jhy]

Thanks Koj, this looks interesting. How would you describe the benefit of this -- why would someone want to use it?

[jkowalczyk]

It enables to render the HTML as any inspector (firebug for instance) would do. Thus, it is easier to identify and highlight a unique node in the whole DOM.

[jhy]

OK, cool. It'd be good if we can think of a method name that describes that utility better, I'm not sure that people will get it from "force block mode" -- that's more of an implementation detail. Maybe "outline" or something?

[jkowalczyk]

Outline sounds great to me. Any chance to be merged in the next release ?

[jhy]

Yep, I'll bring it in. Thanks!

[jhy]

In 1.7.2