dreamweaver question

I don't know if this is the right forum, but does anyone know how to prevent dreamweaver from deforming the html and php code. By deform I mean ruin the nice indenting structure to make the code readable. It seems that after I spend time make sure that everything looks good and is easy to read dreamweaver stomps all over it making it look like html that was created using drag and drop in frontpage.

Thanks for the help

this is a common complaint about dreamweaver but what most people don't realise is that there is a whole section of menu options to stop dreamweaver re-writing code:

Edit - Preferences - Code format

Make sure indent is unckecked. Also uncheck Automatic wrapping

Edit - Preferences - Code rewriting

ensure the top three items are unchecked

There you go - dreamweaver should now leave your code alone.

Its also worth making sure that you have word wrap and auto indent turned off in the Code view options (its a lil drop down menu from an icon at the top of the code window)

In Dreamweaver MX
1. go to Edit/Preferences and select "Code Format"
2. Click on the "Tag Library Editor"
3. Select tag(s) you wish to format
4. Set format options (No line breaks, before and after tag,..)
5. You may want to set to "No line breaks".