Hey everyone,
Recently, a coworker's Dreamweaver has begun adding bizzare amounts of tabbing on every line of code in every html file she works in, and it's driving us all crazy, because every time we open a file after she's saved them, they're incredibly difficult to read and work in, and trying to fix them wastes a lot of time.
So, here's an screenshot of one of our webpages:
And this is what it looks like whenever she re-saves the file:
She doesn't have to even do anything to the page, she just has to save it. This happens whether she doesn't do anything to the code, and saves it as a new html document, and also if she simply adds a single space somewhere in the code, and saves the file as itself. I've worked in Dreamweaver since it was owned by Macromedia, and I've never seen this happen before.
One interesting thing about this, is that her Dreamweaver only ever adds all this extra spacing within the <Article> tag. Nothing gets added in the metadata up top, or within the <head>, or any of the javascript at the top or bottom of the pages. It's weird.
Anyone have any ideas as to what's going on? We both are working on the same computer systems, Mac G6's running OSX 10.11.4, and we're both using CC Dreamweaver 2017.5.
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Could be a code error, like a missing end tag, confusing DW into wanting things tabbed oddly. Run the validator under File > Validate > Current Document W3C or at http://validator.w3.org/nu to get a listing.
I've never seen this personally, but when DW starts doing odd things on its own, that's what I check first.
It may also be worthwhile clearing their program cache file and/or restoring preferences. Those two things will tend to clear odd "just started doing it" behaviors in DW...
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