The HTML in PHP tab formating bug

OlexandrBorysenko

The formatter works great with plain php, but about month ago the bug appeared -
When I format php file with HTML code - the HTML markup begins to "fly away", the new Tab spacing is added on each formatting

MiloslavBeno

Hello Olexandr,

May I ask you for the whole file? We will take a look at it ASAP.

Thanks!

OlexandrBorysenko

MiloslavBeno
The issue actually does not depend on the file context, the bug appears even with a simpliest markup =>

<?php
if ($any_condition):
?>
    <div class="any-html"></div>
<?php
endif;
?>

turns into (tab added on each save)

<?php
if ($any_condition):
    ?>
                                        <div class="any-html"></div>
                                    <?php
endif;
?>

I have no other PHP extension or formatters installed, running latest version of VS Code on macOS Ventura Version 13.5.1.

MiloslavBeno

Thanks,

Most probable cause here is that HTML is not formatting on your vscode. Can you check if you open pure HTML file if it does format?

Is vscode builtin extension HTML Language Features enabled?

OlexandrBorysenko

MiloslavBeno Yess, it's enabled
As experiment I've cleared all the custom settings.json files so it will use defaults but it made no effect _(

MiloslavBeno

Interesting, if you try to create an empty PHP file and try to format just:

			<div    >blah</div>
            <?php

Does this format?

OlexandrBorysenko

MiloslavBeno Yess, thats format correct, but after php appears it begins to fly

<div>blah</div>
<?php
if ($some_state):
    ?>
                        <div class=""></div>
                        <?php
endif;
?>

MiloslavBeno

Hi Olexandr,

Thank you for trying that. Would you mind having an online session so we can take a look together?

Something weird is happening there, but we're not able to replicate this locally.

Thank you

OlexandrBorysenko

MiloslavBeno Hi! Thank you for your reply and attention. I've spent one more hour of disabling/enabling plugins and figured out that the issue was caused by the Microsoft "IntelliCode API Usage Examples" pugin. The issue disappeared only when I've disabled IntelliCode and after that disabled and enabled the Devsence plugins, very strange especially because IntelliCode does not provide any php or formatting services .
So the issue has been resolved and for thous who may face such problem

disable all other plugins and restart the Devsense plugin too, enable and test each plugin even if it is not connected to php or code formatting

MiloslavBeno

Great, thank you for letting us know.

That's weird, that plugin should not interact in any way, but if it solved the issue I'm happy :-)

Thanks again!

Jean-Alexandre

I have the same problem, but even disabling all extensions, restarting Visual Studio Code with all extensions disabled, and renabling only the devsense php extension doesn't make the problem go away.
[edit]Apparently changing the editor.defaultFormatter setting (away from "DEVSENSE.phptools-vscode" but setting it back to this value doesn't bring the bug back) did the trick. Something weird is at play...