Is there a way to perform block folding in CSS with Notepad++?

Question

For example, I wanted to be able to collapse this section block.

/* BEGIN FOOTER CSS */

footer {
    padding: 40px 0px 30px 0px !important;
}

div.copyright {
    padding: 60px 0px 0px 0px !important;
}

/* END FOOTER CSS */

How can I do this?

Answer 1

as soon as you change the language to css, you get the collapsing option displayed (at least in v. 6.1.5)...

Answer 2

You can do what you are trying to by defining a user defined language.

Go to Language -> Define your language.

Under the 'Folding in code 1 style' open list, in the 'Open' box, insert: ///* BEGIN and in the 'Close' box insert ///* END.

The reason for the triple forward slashes is that they are escape characters to prevent NP++ from viewing the /* as a regex match (i think - figured that out by experimentation).

See also.