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Re: formatting html codeby Kayla Block <kblock(at)placeware.com> |
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>Does anyone know of a clear explanation >(either in a book or on the web) concerning >how to format html properly? I haven't seen this documented anywhere and much of it seems to be idiosyncratic. But one of my co-workers writes the most beautiful html I've ever seen so I have learned to use his as a role model. (He also writes the prettiest Java and Javascript code I've ever seen.) He uses an indent space of 2 for html. (Other programming languages usually use 4 but the nature of html makes an indent of 4 unwieldy.) Any container tags are on their own separate line. The contents between the open and close tag are on a separate line and also indented by 2 spaces. This way of writing html usually makes problems become pretty obvious. I can type in an example better than I can explain it: <table> <tr> <td> <font size="+1"> <b> Here is some text. </b> </font> </td> <td> Here is some more text. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> And yet more text. </td> </tr> </table> Kayla
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