Impossible to specify output settings for cloned elements

[Sharcoux]

Cloned elements don't have an owner Document, which makes me unable to set output settings for these elements, and that leads to some issues in my app. Try this:

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Document doc = Jsoup.parse("<div></div>");
        doc.outputSettings(new Document.OutputSettings().prettyPrint(false));
        Element e = doc.body();
        Element copy = e.clone();
        System.out.println(e.outerHtml());//returns html not pretty printed
        System.out.println(copy.outerHtml());//returns html pretty printed
        System.out.println(copy.ownerDocument());//returns null
    }
}

Of course, here it doesn't seem important, but what if you have 2 div with "display:inline-block" side by side ? The pretty printed html would render with an extra space between the 2 divs which is not the expected behaviour.

Shouldn't the outputSettings being copied to the cloned element ? Or the owner document being cloned as well as the cloned element ? Or at least, shouldn't we be provided a function to set outputSetting directly to an Element ? The owner document could be generated at that moment if needed ?

[mct10]

Hi, I want to have a try on solving this.

[jhy]

My suggestion would be to clone the parent Owner Document and attach that to the clone (instead of adding a Document OutputSetting to every element)

[jhy]

Thanks for the suggestion - fixed! Only took a few years to get to ;)