Solved - "Apply Source Formatting" deletes indents instead of adding them

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Solved, by restarting dreamweaver

[Forgive me if I am wrong, but I thought the purpose of "]Apply Source Formatting" is to rewrite the code (html) according the preferences settings. When I run this on a html page, dreamweaver is deleting all indents instead of cleaning up the indents or adding extra indents where necessary.
This especially concern my students as I substract points, when they deliver non-indented code 😉

Paul-M · Accepted Answer

Have you set your indent options  in  preferences > code format ? Also please state your OS and what version of Dreamweaver you are using...

Nancy OShea · Answer

Apply source formatting only indents code if that's how you have things set-up in your tag libraries. Personally, I see no advantage in indented code. My OCD side has always preferred working with left aligned markup. To the matter of subtracting points from students, I think that's terrible. Indents have no effect on performance or whether the code is actually any good or not. Formatting code with/without indents is a personal choice, not a web standard.

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