Using Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition. 

Whenever I use the format document (ctrl-k ctrl-d) command when editing aspx or xml pages, it obliterates my careful hand crafted line spacing.  I just want to standardize the indentation not the line spacing.   In contrast, when I issue this command while editing code-behind files (c#) it does what I want, which is fix the indentation and leave the spacing alone.   How can I get this same behavior in aspx and xml files?

Hi,

If we run the Format Document command in the Source View window, the Visual Studio formats your tags just like you said.   

You can try to custom tag line break formatting by Tools->Options->Text Editor->Html->Format tab->Click Tag Specific Options->Click Client HTML Tags->Select node->Set "Line Breaks" ->Click OK, and then you can run Format Document command to format your tags.

I hope this helps.

 Are you saying I need to set specific line spacing for each HTML and ASP tag?  What I like about the c# formatting is that whether I decide I want 10 blank lines or 1 blank line it leaves it alone.

Hi,

Thanks for your response.

If we use this format command, the visual studio will apply the HTML source formatting rules currently configured and clean up the HTML markup. As far as I know, there is not such option that only indenting the content.

You can format the html source and then break line you want.

I hope this helps.