Wordpress template code messed up

Question

Here is a screenshot of what's happening to my wordpresss template code time after time:

https://www.box.net/shared/zrql76wiimr790587yxj

I thought at first it was a notepad++ problem. But this occured also on phpstorm.

Any idea why that's happening?

Answer 1

Your code isn't messed up, this is a question about how your system handles lineendings.

Linux and OSX save lineendings differently from Windows.

Linux and OSX saves lineendings with a Line Feed (LF):

\n

While windows saves it with Carriage Return + Line Feed (CR+LF):

\r\n

So what is probably happening is that your file has been written on a system that doesn't save lineendings in the windows format. Your editor most probably supports these kind of line endings and can handle it, look into the menus of your editor.

** Below is part of an edit and not part of my answer.**

You can check EditorConfig which can be helpful when you are trying to keep settings across projects and/or editors and also, if you keep your code under git, Dealing with line endings article from Github may be also helpful.

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