Styleboxes are all in ONE line??

Sorry if you have seen this request before as I posted it as an addition to another thread without any response ... but as I could not find any references anywhere.. here is a single post.

When I go to edit a stylebox, all the script is in one line without any breaks etc. This makes it almost impossible to edit. It must be something simple that this dummy has done??

John

What do you mean by "stylebox"?

It must have too early when I wrote that ... I meant 'stylesheet'

That may happen if you have a "minify" script working on your site. This strips all "extraneous" elements like line breaks and comments from the stylesheet - good for speed if you have a problem with that, but you have to keep an uncompressed copy somewhere so you can actually work on it. I don't know if minify alters the originals or just serves a compressed copy.

For javascript minification scripts can dramatically shorten the code by globally substituting short variable names for long ones, but that's not really an option for stylesheets where most everything is either externally defined (the styling rules) or just linked to something external (tag, id and class names). So there's not much that they can do other than the whitepsace, shortening of color codes and dropping unneeded final semi-colons. So javascript can do more, and because of code layout typically introduces a lot more whitespace - which is why it's more popular for javascript.

In the absence of any other information about where your template came from, this does sound like the most likely explanation. Another possibility might be an editor, transfer or encoding problem resulting in the line feed characters being lost from the file or ineffective on your server.