Adding rule templates to HTML language

[santitigaga (Santiago Garcia Gil)]

Multiple plugins can contribute rules for a language

But reading https://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/extend/adding-coding-rules/ only some languages support that, why?

I need to create custom rule templates for html language

[Joe]

Hi @santitigaga,

Welcome to SonarSource community!

Regarding custom rules for HTML, I’ll quote Pierre from his post here:

@pynicolas

SonarHTML does not support custom rules.
If you want to code your own rules for HTML, I suggest you to create a separate plugin which only executes your checks and doesn’t create incompatibilities with SonarHTML.

Your plugin:

• should have its own plugin key (and not use the same one as SonarHTML)
• should not declare the HTML language
• should not feed SonarQube with metrics which are computed by SonarHTML

Please see the documentation on how to develop a plugin .

Another option is to use the Generic Issue Import Format, but it has a few limitations as listed there.

Lastly, we welcome suggestions for new rules and you can post that here.

Joe