From 9335fb30936b571e7b08d5855055b8857bab1ba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 20:52:32 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Expand note on beautification with link to online HTML Tidy --- manual/edit.rst | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/manual/edit.rst b/manual/edit.rst index 3438d1bd38..0a338b07ac 100644 --- a/manual/edit.rst +++ b/manual/edit.rst @@ -388,10 +388,14 @@ beautify. Accessed via :guilabel:`Tools->Beautify all files`. .. note:: In HTML any text can have significant whitespace, via the CSS white-space - directive. Therefor, beautification could potentially change the rendering - of the HTML. To avoid this, as much as possible, the beautify algorithm + directive. Therefore, beautification could potentially change the rendering + of the HTML. To avoid this as far as possible, the beautify algorithm only beautifies block level tags that contain other block level tags. So, for example, text inside a

tag will not have its whitespace changed. + This can sometimes mean that some HTML files will not be affected by + beautify as they have no suitable block level tags. In such cases you can + try different beautification tools, that are less careful, for example: + `HTML Tidy `_. Insert inline Table of Contents