AlexL - 25 Jan 06 10:02 The extent that this code gets messed up upon reformatting depends on your code style settings. Things get much worse if you have HTML->Keep line breaks disabled. IntelliJ should be calculating indent levels of the java code without regard to indent level of '<%' or '%>' or the indent level of the the html tags. Actually, I suppose someone might like it to indent starting at '<%', but that only works if the formatter can place the each '<%' at the right level. It looks like IntelliJ newline indent algorithm is just looking at the enclosing indent level of the '<%' rather than backing up to the last line of java code. For example, <% int a; %> If I move '<%' 10 spaces in, and then reindent "int a;", it will be indented starting at position of the '<%', rather than the previous last java line, or in this case, the outer class level which should be indent level 1. <% int a; %> I would rather IntelliJ ignore the position of '<%', and do <% int a; %> I guess this may be personal preference, but I think of all the code within the <% %> blocks as being part of one big method, so I want them all indented at the same level, irregardless of the position of '<%' '%>' tags and the html tags. The current formatter does some really wierd stuff to the exmaple above like producing: It should be enforcing the java code indentation above all else.