html structure

[anarchojoseph]

<tr>  <td>100</td>

What does the space mean when coding? Why do people do that when coding in html? Is it so that you can be better organized? And, lastly, is there a program that does this? because I use notepad++ and when I type in the same snippet of code I get

<tr><td>100</td>

should I double space manually? I've always wondered why people do this but I was never sure

[thescientist]

indentation is much preferred way of adding organization, structure, and readability to code. I prefer to use a tab setting of 2 spaces.

[jeffman]

1. An organization that is easy to visualize is not very useful until something goes wrong or needs to be changed.2. Something always goes wrong.3. Something always needs to be changed.

[Synook]

Note that while in HTML whitespace has no special meaning, in some programming languages such as Python indentation is the only way you can specify blocks of code.

[knystrom18]

Yep. DD said it right. Theoretically, the code for a site could all be on one line, or a character per line, indentation is purely organizational.

[Synook]

Yep. DD said it right. Theoretically, the code for a site could all be on one line, or a character per line, indentation is purely organizational.

Err, there are some things that can't be split, for example an element can't be written:

<a href = "test">a</hr>

But in terms of non-syntactic structures, then yes.

[knystrom18]

That seems right, and I feel silly for saying a character per line. I should have said a tag per line.