Jim Nannery wrote: >>Cory wrote: >>I'm sorry, I think you guys are misunderstanding what I am saying. I am >>not talking about how the layout looks in the browser, I am talking >>about when you right click and view the source code, THAT is what is all >>messed up. In particular the CSS. In DW8, the CSS is all nice and neat >>just like I coded it, but if you view the CSS CODE in a browser window, >>it is all messed up and all over the place like it lost the formatting. >> >>What would cause that? The browser, the FTP program that I am using or >>what? >>Cory >> >> >[...] >Since I don't use Dreamweaver (old hand coder) I'm *guessing* that DW uses >some proprietary formatting that isn't recognized by the browser you are >trying to view it in. >[...] > > Hi Cory, I don't have DW either, but guess it will be the way DW is making the tab space. The same thing is happening for instance in Frontpage: there they use a tab space which is about 4 letters in width. Openend the same css-file (or javascript-file: same effects) in Wordpad, the space is 6 letters. And in Notepad ... 10 letters in width (& sometimes not showing the tabs, but a black sign instead, without spacing). With 2 or more indenting tabs for nested div's it doesn't show good anymore. Then there are huge white spaces and wrappings to next lines: *"unordered listings"*. ;-) You can check this by moving in the css-file with the arrow keys: big jumps in the whitespaces indicate the tab positions.
It can be also, that in DW a proportional font-type is used, while not in Notepad. In browsers, it depends of the default text-editor you have assigned in the browser configuration: the text-editor that will be used automatically when the browser discovers a css- or other text file that has to be opened. >Does the html render as expected in the browser? If so, I wouldn't worry to >much about how the code looks in view source. >[...] > Agree! - When I am in a clear mood, I don't use the tab key when coding, but give 2 or 3 ordinary spacebar spaces - then the code is always good looking. francky ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
