Posted by strawberry on 07/17/06 15:44

Sheldon Glickler wrote:
> I use Dreamweaver as my development IDE.
>
> When I create a textarea, put stuff in, save it to the database, and recall
> it to the textarea later, it alway comes up with what looks like a large tab
> spacing in the beginning. If I save it back, it comes back the same way.
> If I delete the leading stuff and save it again, it still comes back exactly
> the same.
>
> This is only for the first paragraph so I suspect there are some leading
> characters that I don't know about. How can I get it to display starting at
> the left edge?
>
> Shelly

Not sure. I've seen this problem before though - and on those occasions
the culprit has been blank space or carriage returns in the html. Have
a look at the source code and see if there are any obvious spaces that
might produce this error.

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