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Santosh Kumar
Asked: 2012-05-14 15:13:56 +0800 CST

How to make Geany understand the new HTML5 elements?

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For example <header> and <footer> are new HTML5 elements, but as it seems in the screen shot below both the elements are marked as red which probably means Geany is telling :
Warining : Unknown elements

                  Geany doesn't know what is header and footer elements

How can I make this normal? What files do I need to edit?

Update

I found that when I revert back to default (white background, as shown in Morlunk's answer) theme then no error occurs. Any way to make this happen in my theme? Because I don't want to leave dark theme

ide text-editor settings 11.10 geany

2 Answers

  1. On the version of Geany shipped with Ubuntu 12.04 (0.21), this doesn't appear to be an issue!

    I recommend you update to the latest version of Geany using this PPA or, if you're feeling adventurous, updating to Ubuntu 12.04. Good luck!

    Andrew

    Geany 0.21

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  2. The following can be tacked onto the end of the HTML keywords line in filetypes.xml (~/.config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.xml) for the HTML5 new elements to be recognised:

    article aside audio canvas command details datalist figure figcaption footer header hgroup keygen mark meter nav output progress section time video wbr

    (Geany 1.23.1 has these keywords.)

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