RBB said:
i just wanted to make a text with dreamweaver,
but when i want to separate some words with more
spaces the space bar doeas not work, i cant write like
a normal text editor, so i cant make text in dreamweaver,
i just doit with word and then save it as an html.
like making this message, if it was dreamweaver i cant make the
spaces i want or so,
it means that dreamweaver is not good to make text and separate
words as you like in a simple way??
It is not a Dreamweaver problem. Dreamweaver is very good to make web
page text. Dreamweaver is working the way it should.
The problem is that in a web page, you are not allowed to have more
than one space. If you type more than one space, the extra spaces are
removed automatically.
If I type this in a web page:
"This is a test."
It will appear like this:
"This is a test."
You may be asking, why does it do this? Why does it not allow extra
spaces? The reason is that extra spaces are very very bad.
If you look at any professional publishing program (such as
FrameMaker), you will see that these programs do not allow extra
spaces. There are many tools available to control the spacing between
words. These tools give you better control, and allow the document to
be edited more easily in the future.
In the case of web pages, you can use tables, or text-centering, or
word-spacing, or the <PRE> element to control the spacing between
words. Which one should you use? That depends on what you want the page
to look like.
I suggest that you buy a book about HTML and cascading style sheets
before going any further. You will feel a lot less frustrated.