Bug in "Format CSS Code..."

Mot · Post by **Mot** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:45 pm

Just realized - after pulling out a lot of hair - that the CSS formatter is adding a space before selector IDs.

In other words:

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span#footer {font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 9px;
color: #0000FF;
    text-align: center;
}

becomes:

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span #footer {
    font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 9px;
    color: #0000FF;
    text-align: center;
}

This, of course, breaks the CSS for that selector#id.

Is there something I'm missing in the CSS formatter settings that could prevent this problem?

Having used WeBuilder for just a few weeks now, and ignoring this little issue, I can honestly say I've yet to find a better web coding tool. Heck of a nice job, Karlis! I've looked at a lot of apps and used a few - like First Page 2006 and CoffeeCup 2007 to name just a couple. WeBuilder totally blows them out of the water!

Post by **Gatis** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:37 am

If this is really a bug (not sure about that at the moment), we will see what can be done.
Thanks for reporting this!

Post by **Gatis** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:00 pm

After looking at this closer, seems this is really a bug.
Also http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#id-selectors seems to confirm that.
A fix has been made for handling these IDs so that a space is not inserted before the Hash element if there was no whitespace.
The fix will be placed in the next update.

ihrzauberer · Post by **ihrzauberer** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:33 am

I'm using Rapid CSS 8.3.0.30.

Using "Format CSS code..." insert a space between the value and the unit, i.e.:

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height: 30px;
font-size: 0.94em;

becomes:

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height: 30 px;
font-size: 0.94 em;

which breaks the validation of code.

Too, "Format CSS code..." removes all comments.

Both errors don't occurs if the switchs "Preserve original whitespace" and "Remove comments" are active = on.

Best regards
Ralf

daredare · Post by **daredare** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:48 pm

well this would mean that it isnt really a bug but the parser shouldn't add this white space as it has no real purpose

i have never used this format css code feature, Maybe it's a good feature when beginning

Post by **Gatis** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:31 pm

Thank you for reporting it. Indeed, there is such bug and we will fix it.

ihrzauberer · Post by **ihrzauberer** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:49 pm

thank you =8-)

Best regards
Ralf