[thelist] "Hand Coding" in DWMX2004

[Jono]

On 8/23/04 9:39 AM, "Pete Prodoehl" <pete.prodoehl at cygnusinteractive.com>
wrote:

> I think the "Dreamweaver messes with my code" thing is what many
> hand-coders think, and perhaps it was true years ago.

The thing that bugs me (sorry to keep beating a dead horse) is how
Dreamweaver breaks the code's formatting.  Sometimes the code stays nice and
neat, tab-deliniated, in easy to read blocks of code:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
</table>


But sometimes it does something like this:

<table>
<tr> 
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td align="right"><b>General Information</b></td>
            <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
                                <td align="left" valign="top"></td>
                                <td>&nbsp;</td>
          </tr>
          <tr> 
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td align="right" bgcolor="E3E3E3">Manager Name</td>
            <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="E3E3E3"><input
name="prodname3" type="text" value="ACME Manager1" size="32"
maxlength="32"></td>
                                <td align="left" valign="top"
bgcolor="E3E3E3"></td>
                                <td>&nbsp;</td>
          </tr>
</table>

I have not found a way to prevent the wacky broken formatting problem, or
found a reason that Dreamweaver does it?

Am I alone on this one?