Flare 10.x - HTML formatting lost!

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sdcinvan
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Flare 10.x - HTML formatting lost!

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Hello all and happy Friday,

Has anyone ever encountered an issue where HTML formatting is lost, resulting in many clean lines of code become compressed into a single a single line?

I have encountered this several times and even if I manually attempt to clean it up, it always reverts back to a mess.
I was able to fix this a few weeks ago... it seems to have something to do with paragraphs <p> misplaced inside a division tag <div>.

It's 8PM... I'm not going to bother with this now... just thought I'd put this one out there. Good night!
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Re: Flare 10.x - HTML formatting lost!

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I've also seen it with lists, only it just affects the list items and not the entire topic. I've never been real happy with Flare's Text Editor, but it's a minor issue for me and I just use a third party editor if I have to do some serious syntax work.
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Re: Flare 10.x - HTML formatting lost!

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Was this issue ever fixed? It is still happening in 11.1.
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Re: Flare 10.x - HTML formatting lost!

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lguser wrote:Was this issue ever fixed? It is still happening in 11.1.
I have not encountered this problem in a long time.

I also seem to recall that this problem only appeared under certain conditions... I think it was a particular error in the HTML that caused Flare to remove all the HTML formatting.

I think it is safe to claim that the problem has been fixed between version 10.2.1 and now.
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Re: Flare 10.x - HTML formatting lost!

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I haven't seen it for a while, either. However, I do (from time to time) encounter files with no formatting and use NotePad++ with the XML Tools plugin to fix it.
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Re: Flare 10.x - HTML formatting lost!

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kwag_myers wrote:I haven't seen it for a while, either. However, I do (from time to time) encounter files with no formatting and use NotePad++ with the XML Tools plugin to fix it.
Although I haven't encountered this problem, +1 for NotePad ++ :D

NotePad ++ is also the best tool for editing project css files.
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