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Old 11-27-2022, 10:14 AM   #1
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Beautify question
Hi,
Now and again I will come across a file that defies the beautify rules.
Nothing separates between </p> and <p>.
All ends up as one big text glob.
It does not affect the output but makes editing time consuming.
Any reason why this would happen?
Thanks
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Old 11-27-2022, 10:15 AM   #2
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Beautify will only beautify when it can be reasonably certain that the changes it makes will not affect the rendered appearance. Lots of things can cause it to refuse to beautify. If you want to force it copy paste the HTML into some external beuatify tool that is not so careful and paste the result back.
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Old 11-27-2022, 12:48 PM   #3
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Hi,
Now and again I will come across a file that defies the beautify rules.
Nothing separates between </p> and <p>.
All ends up as one big text glob.
It does not affect the output but makes editing time consuming.
Any reason why this would happen?
Thanks
Phil
I don't have an example at hand, but I've seen this happen if a bunch of <p>s are surrounded by other code, like some <div> or <pre> or something. Remove that surrounding thing, which is usually useless or in error, and Beautify will work again.
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Old 11-27-2022, 11:42 PM   #4
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Thanks for the explanations.
Not going to trust an external beautifier.
Will look for extraneous tags.
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Old 11-28-2022, 12:13 AM   #5
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I sometimes also have problems with Beautify, where in certain xhtml pages, it does nothing.

The culprit is a set of empty <div class="something"></div> tags either just below the <body> tag or below the heading tags.

Once I delete these tags, beautify works as per normal. Next time I come across a book with that issue, I'll scramble it and upload it if anybody is interested in checking out why it does that.
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Old 11-28-2022, 09:14 AM   #6
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Found it.
Duplicate body tags.
Removed one and all works.
Thanks for the replies and ideas on where to look.
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