jswebdev

hello! i'm looking for an IDE w/ a "wizard", in the spirit of HTML Tidy, which might separate new lines based on Element tags. are you aware of any such software?

perhaps you can think of something that might do a "similar" type of function?

my reason for asking is because something happened to some of my local development files, causing my line returns to disappear-- so it's quite difficult to "see" the structure of the page-- everything looks "run together"-- there are spaces between the tags, however-- so the page when viewed in the browser would NOT appear as if there's anything different about the source-code

Although it's mostly HTML, there is php mixed into the HTML Element tags for the purpose of accomodating, for example, folder-heirarchy versus image and include() source-file location -- the depth away from the image folder as in some folders require <img src="../../../consistent-header-image.jpg" /> whereas others need <img src="../consistent-header-image.jpg" />
i mention this particular aspect because this is the reason that i can't use HTML tidy-- because it modifies the PHP code improperly.

ideas? my guess is that i could probably do it even w/ Regular Expressions-- only, i'm hardly familiar w/ how to use that technique at all.

herkalees

I may be way off here, but I think you could open the code in Dreamweaver (if you have it) and go to Command > Apply source formatting.

This, again, is only a guess. Best of luck!

Tim356

Yeah, Dreamweaver does exactly what you're after.

sypher

And for those that ever have a trouble similar to this when previewing code in a browser put <pre> tag at beginning and </pre> at the end of your code.

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