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    • Robk BlueR Offline
      Robk Blue
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      Hi,

      I’m having this strange issue where I am editing a css file in NP++ and have all my indentations perfect to 2 spaces. I then copy and paste the entire code from NP++ in to WordPress via Appearance > Editor > Styles > Additional CSS field.

      For some reason, the indentation of the pasted code in Additional CSS window is completely out of whack. The spacing varies from 4 to 8 and there’s no consistency at all, as if it completely randomises it. Because I sometimes edit my css directly in WordPress, it makes it awful to work with.

      Does anyone know what’s up with this?

      Thanks.

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      • Alan KilbornA Offline
        Alan Kilborn @Robk Blue
        last edited by Alan Kilborn

        @Robk-Blue said:

        indentations perfect to 2 spaces

        Does this mean that you have Notepad++ set up such that tab characters are visualized as two spaces, or that you aren’t using tab characters at all and simply have Notepad++ directly insert two spaces when you press the Tab key when your caret is in a tab-stop column?

        If you are inserting tab characters in your Notepad++ document, then copying your text to another program for processing allows that other program to interpret tab characters as it sees fit (which could easily be different from “two spaces” in Wordpress’s default handling).

        Possible solutions to your “problem” might be to stop using tab characters (if that’s truly what you are doing), or look into adjusting Wordpress’s settings for how to handle tab characters (if it has such settings).

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