HTML Tidy not configured

[Jon Olson]

I have been using the trial version of Webuilder 2007 and really liked it. I purchased the $39 version yesterday and used the Tidy button to check for errors and it completed reformatted my code(right justified everything and added some html code).

I'm a 64 year old retired mainframe programmer and was just creating a recipe site for my wife. Had the web site nearly ready to upload, but now the pieces of the site are out of alignment. Using XAMPP and SSI on my computer, so cannot give an address for anyone to check.

Something changed from trial version to paid version, and not for the better.

Any suggestions?

[Karlis]

If you upgraded from 2006 to 2007, you should have read and applied this:
http://www.blumentals.net/webuilder/faq ... pd_upgrade

You MUST follow these instructions in order to keep your old settings when upgrading from old version (no matter trial or full) to 2007.

Trial version is 100% the same as full.

Please check your settings, most likely you have not selected correct default tidy task. My guess is that your default Tidy task is not Validate HTML, but something else. You should use Validate HTML task, because this task checks for errors only and does not change anything.

Also note, that often valid HTML looks different than invalid, so if you use Validate and Fix, this may cause changes.

[Jon Olson]

I was updating 2007 from trial to paid.

It left justified all the lines instead of right justify.

Code was added and original lines split diferently and no longer working the same.

When I click on HTML Tidy, there are no options and in the trial version, I believe there were five or six options.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I could uninstall and reinstall and see if that makes a difference.

[Karlis]

Hm, check this screenshot:
http://www.blumentals.net/webuilder/tour.php?id=4

When you click the little arrow near the Tidy toolbar button, do you see this menu with all those options or not? If not, it could be that your Tidy configuration file for some reason is not installed.

Check if this file exists:
C:\Documents and Settings\<YourUsername>\Application Data\Blumentals\WeBuilder\settings\tidy.dat

If not or if it is empty then there is a problem. The file could get deleted if you uninstalled trial after installing full version.

Anyway, un-intsall and re-install could solve the problem.

[Jon Olson]

Checked the HTML Tidy screenshot, but mine is empty.

The tidy.dat file is there, and what follows is the contents:

[]
add-xml-decl=no
add-xml-space=no
alt-text=
assume-xml-procins=no
bare=no
break-before-br=no
clean=no
doctype=auto
drop-empty-paras=yes
drop-font-tags=no
drop-proprietary-attributes=no
enclose-block-text=no
enclose-text=no
escape-cdata=no
fix-bad-comments=yes
fix-uri=yes
hide-comments=no
hide-endtags=no
indent-cdata=no
input-xml=no
join-classes=no
join-styles=yes
logical-emphasis=no
lower-literals=yes
ncr=yes
new-blocklevel-tags=
new-empty-tags=
new-inline-tags=
new-pre-tags=
numeric-entities=no
output-xhtml=no
output-xml=no
quote-ampersand=yes
quote-marks=no
quote-nbsp=yes
repeated-attributes=keep-last
replace-color=no
show-body-only=no
uppercase-attributes=no
uppercase-tags=no
word-2000=no
show-errors=6
show-warnings=yes
indent=no
indent-attributes=no
indent-spaces=2
literal-attributes=no
markup=yes
tab-size=4
wrap=68
wrap-asp=yes
wrap-attributes=no
wrap-jste=yes
wrap-php=yes
wrap-script-literals=no
wrap-sections=yes
ascii-chars=yes
char-encoding=ascii
input-encoding=latin1
language=
output-bom=auto
output-encoding=ascii
newline=CRLF
fix-backslash=yes
force-output=no
gnu-emacs=no
quiet=no
keep-time=yes
write-back=yes
tidy-mark=no
default=0

This is after doing an uninstall thru windows and then a reinstall.

[Karlis]

Ok, clear. You must have indeed got rid of original tidy.dat when uninstalling trial.

No problem. Delete this tidy.dat and re-install full version once more, it should restore original tidy.dat

[Jon Olson]

I deleted the tidy.dat file, uninstalled 2007, then reinstalled 2007.

HTML Tidy is now working as it should.

Now to get the web site back to working like it was.

Thanks for the quick response and help.

Your editor has helped this old fella get back into the computer world.

Jon

[Karlis]

Thanks! I am glad that it works now.

Will try to figure out how to prevent this in the future...