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Posted by Graham Davidson
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points

Dreamweaver and Pretty Code

Hi

I am getting a little bit anal about the indents on my code - I use Dreamweaver's lovely code editor but the <p> does not seem to wrap in a pleasing way ie would prefer it to wrap directly under the <p> rather than it does on this screen shot http://www.justg.co.uk/indentAnnoyance.jpg - does anyone know how to sort this out in DW.

Thanks

G

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Michael Immordino
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Michael Immordino
Courses Plus Student 6,749 Points
Michael Immordino
Michael Immordino
Courses Plus Student 6,749 Points

From http://forums.adobe.com/message/1981957

"You can turn on that style of word wrapping, but it's not enabled by default because it relies on inserting a hard newline character each time a line is wrapped. Newline characters are treated by JavaScript as indicating the end of a statement, so this style of wrapping can break JavaScript on your page if you're not careful.

To enable hard wrapping with text indentation, open Preferences (Edit menu on Windows, Dreamweaver menu on a Mac), and select the Code Format category. Select the Automatic wrapping checkbox and set the column (character) at which you want the line to be wrapped.

The Dreamweaver default is to use soft wrapping, which is controlled by View > Code View Options > Word Wrap. This option toggles soft wrapping on and off. A soft wrap automatically wraps code when it reaches the right edge of Code view, but without inserting a newline character."

Graham Davidson
Graham Davidson
Courses Plus Student 14,966 Points

HI Michael

Thanks for that. Very insightful. I think I am going to have to lump it and have the soft wrap - sigh.

G