Closing tags in code view causes a whole bunch of tabs

[n0tja]

For whatever reason, after about 5 straight hours of coding in Dreamweaver today without any issues I started having this problem. Every time I close an HTML tag Dreamewaver automatically adds about 20 tabs to the code.

So this:

<tr>

<td>Hello World!</td>

</tr>

becomes

<tr>

                                                                      <td>Hello World!</td>

</tr>

So basically Dreamweaver is useless to me because I have to constantly remove all these extra tabs. I can't find anything on Google. Maybe I'm searching for the wrong keywords.

Any ideas?

[BenPleysier · Accepted solution]

This usually happens when Dreamweaver gets confused by coding errors. Go through your document for any unclosed elements or go to http://validator.w3.org/ to have the validator do that for you.

Note: I think the validator may be off-line at the moment of writing this reply.

[n0tja]

BenPleysier,

Thanks for the reply. This was driving me insane. I downloaded another web syntax editor and as soon as I opened the file, it pointed out an instance where I had forgot a quote (").

for example, I had:

<td bgcolor= #c0c0c0">

Obviously I'm missing the opening quotes on the value for the property bgcolor.

I didn't even think to go back into Dreamweaver and see if that fixed it until I read your reply. I just opened the file back up in Dreamweaver and tried to replicate my issue. Since I am unable too, I'm going to assume that you are correct.

Thanks again for your help!