Why it is so hard to play with html in visual studio

ankur1163

Hi guys, First of all thanks, you guys are super helpful. I always wanted to become a coder, now i see this dream coming to reality with help of you guys. Now, i am learning asp.net with the help of local teacher. We are going to create a new website. Now, we "open a new website", created a master page. However, editing this template in visual studio is nightmare. You delete something and something else gets spaced out. However, when you see everything in webbrowser, everything comes out allright. Is there a better way to do this? I am using 2010 VS. 1) Should i use dreamweaver first. design everything first and than, move to visual studio? How you guys do it? Thanks

ankur1163

I hope this is not difficult question. Can someone please answer me.

Lost User

Please be patient, it is the weekend in most of the world, and still night in much of the west. People will answer in their own time.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

I'm editing html since notepad with all the versions of VS (2003-2013), and never had problems like one you described here... You may turn on/off automatic formatting. You may also turn on/off wrapping. In general - try to play around with HTML editor settings in VS to see what fits you better... Good luck with the 'become a coder' think anyway... :)

I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)

jkirkerx

I don't have that problem, check your option settings under editors, and see if line wrapping is checked, and any sort of auto formatting is turned off. I started out using Dreamweaver back in 2003, but now I just use Visual Studio for everything. I don't use the preview very much, I just run F5, and I keep refreshing the page to check how it looks, so I run the VS on the left monitor, and run 2 or 3 browsers on the right monitor and check each browser. Don't use the asp.net objects unless you have to. Just write plain HTML in your favorite flavor. Most of the asp.net objects are useless in my opinion. Take the validator object, doesn't work half the time in a production environment. If your making a form, you can use the Label, and textbox objects. My rule is, unless I need them in code behind, I just use HTML Objects. If I'm writing HTML in pure code behind, I use the asp.net HTML Objects.