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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Gunter Ganscher
<> writing in news85Ud.22954$Tt.9757@fed1read05:

> I am trying to search Google for information about coding standards
with
> regards HTML and indentation, but all I can seem to find is coding
> standards documents for programming languages that happen to be HTML
> files, arguments about tabs versus spaces, and other things totally
> irrelevant to my question. What is the common way of indenting HTML?
> Should it be indented at all?
>
> Gunter

I usually only indent major containers, eg:

<div id="container">
<div id="content">
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>
<table summary="a table">
<caption>Table</caption>
<tr>
<td>A Cell</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>

I also write a lot of server side code, and I indent if conditions,
for/while loops, switch case, etc. In that case indenting makes reading
the code a little easier.

--
Adrienne Boswell
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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It was somewhere outside Barstow when Gunter Ganscher
<> wrote:

>I am trying to search Google for information about coding standards with
>regards HTML and indentation,

HTML really doesn't care about this (*)

So use whatever your personal editor does by default, when you hit
auto-wrap. Anything else is just too annoying to work with. Make the
tab display settings such that you can see it.

Should your editor be broken enough to actually kill something
important in HTML when it wraps, switch to a less-broken editor.


(*) Naturally IE is a little broken here.