Removal of empty <i> tags

[bizharvest]

Seems to remove empty tags which are the standard tags used for bootstrap icons. I have set drop-empty-elements to false and even added

new-inline-tags => 'i'
new-empty-tags => 'i'

Though I don't think those two should be needed.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

[geoffmcl]

Hi @bizharvest, thanks for reporting, but I can not seem to find a problem with the --drop-empty-elements false option. It seems to work for me...

Input: file input5\in_247.html

<p>Empty <i></i> italics</p>

Config: file input5\cfg_247.txt

drop-empty-elements: false
show-info: false
show-body-only: true

Version: from tidy -v, from the current master branch -

HTML Tidy for Windows version 5.1.2

Output: as expected, using ...\test> tidy -config input5\cfg_247.txt input5\in_247.html, namely -

No warnings or errors were found.

Info: Document content looks like HTML5
<p>Empty <i></i> italics</p>

Got the same results from the version 5.0.0.RC1, in the release/5.0.0 branch, and the latest 5.1.7.D231, from the issue-228 branch...

Of course it will not work with the sourceforge cvs source, version HTML Tidy for Windows released on 25 March 2009, since it does not support this drop-empty-elements option...

What version of Tidy! are you using? Where did you get it? Or what source, and branch, if you compiled from source...

If there is still a problem for you, then please provide a small input sample, the config used, the output, and if different to output, the expected output...

Hope this helps...

[bizharvest]

Thanks for your time. Upon further review I realized that when I translated my php array into commandline I was not properly passing in "false" as a parameter. It was simply passing an empty string which of course is not the same thing.

I changed my logic to detect false and translate it into "false" as a string and everything now works as expected.