Space Case

html collapses whitespace in the code- if they were really blank spaces
that you pasted, only the first one is seen- the rest are ignored when the
page is rendered. (unless the <pre> preformatted tag is used. but that's
ugly)

Using blank spaces for positioning isn't the greatest- investigate using
Layers or Tables or anything else instead.

For when you do need consecutive blank spaces, use the html character entity
for a blank space &nbsp;

dreamweaver menu->insert->special characters->non-breaking space

or, change the Preferences
General prefs, allow consecutive blank spaces.

Hi,

I'm new to Dreamweaver, so I have a basic question WRT copying text.

I tried to copy-paste some text from notepad into a layer
(and tried it again with a table). It collapsed all instances
of multiple white spaces (ie: 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20)
into just one space (ie: 0x20). Is there any way to preserve strings
of spaces without having to search-replace all occurrences of
the space character with &nbsp before copy-pasting it?


Thanks in advance,

- Sam -

Hi,

I'm new to Dreamweaver, so I have a basic question WRT copying text.

I tried to copy-paste some text from notepad into a layer
(and tried it again with a table). It collapsed all instances
of multiple white spaces (ie: 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20)
into just one space (ie: 0x20). Is there any way to preserve strings
of spaces without having to search-replace all occurrences of
the space character with &nbsp before copy-pasting it?


Thanks in advance,

- Sam -

I'm not sure I understand why you ised spaces, but I do know that it is best
not to use spaces for positioning anything.
Eleanor
"Sam" <wylburNOSPAM (AT) ev1 (DOT) net> wrote

Hi,

I'm new to Dreamweaver, so I have a basic question WRT copying text.

I tried to copy-paste some text from notepad into a layer
(and tried it again with a table). It collapsed all instances
of multiple white spaces (ie: 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20)
into just one space (ie: 0x20). Is there any way to preserve strings
of spaces without having to search-replace all occurrences of
the space character with &nbsp before copy-pasting it?


Thanks in advance,

- Sam -

Exactly why?

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"Sam" <wylburNOSPAM (AT) ev1 (DOT) net> wrote

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 09:14:15 -0600, Sam <wylburNOSPAM (AT) ev1 (DOT) net> graced us
with his/her
considerable wisdom and wrote:


Hi,

I'm new to Dreamweaver, so I have a basic question WRT copying text.

I tried to copy-paste some text from notepad into a layer
(and tried it again with a table). It collapsed all instances
of multiple white spaces (ie: 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20)
into just one space (ie: 0x20). Is there any way to preserve strings
of spaces without having to search-replace all occurrences of
the space character with &nbsp before copy-pasting it?


Thanks in advance,

- Sam -

A better question: How do I modify the way Dreamweaver interprets
and formats pasted text?


Another Thanks,

- Sam -

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 10:09:46 -0500, Alan <dont_mail_me_period (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> graced us
with his/her considerable wisdom and wrote:

html collapses whitespace in the code- if they were really blank spaces
that you pasted, only the first one is seen- the rest are ignored when the
page is rendered. (unless the <pre> preformatted tag is used. but that's
ugly)

Using blank spaces for positioning isn't the greatest- investigate using
Layers or Tables or anything else instead.

For when you do need consecutive blank spaces, use the html character entity
for a blank space &nbsp;

dreamweaver menu->insert->special characters->non-breaking space

or, change the Preferences
General prefs, allow consecutive blank spaces.

I changed my general preferences, and that did the trick
- thanks - you're brilliant.

One thing I DID notice: Whenever I hit the space bar at the
first of a line, it inserts a white space right after the &nbsp,
creating a double space. I can access the code and delete the
white space, but I don't understand the rationale for making
that double-space insertion in the first place. Does anyone have
any idea?


- Sam -

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 07:30:26 -0800, "E. T. Culling" <etcetc (AT) notatcrcwnet (DOT) com> graced us
with his/her considerable wisdom and wrote:

I'm not sure I understand why you ised spaces, but I do know that it is best
not to use spaces for positioning anything.
Eleanor

It's just for a block of simple text in a free-form informational field
- nothing special - but I wanted to know how to insert strings of spaces
- if only for my own enlightenment.


- Sam -

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 11:54:29 -0500, "Murray *TMM*" <forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com>
graced us with his/her considerable wisdom and wrote:

Exactly why?

Why not? *shrug*

I'm trying to learn this thing called Dreamweaver - I'm new to it.

In this particular instance, it's just a field of informational
free-form text - it's nothing special - and I don't want to create
a bunch of layers all over the place. Changing the preferences
(as Alan suggested) got me to where I wanted to go
- my query was answered.

Thanks.


- Sam -