# \[DW\] Making code neater
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dw-making-code-neater/57216
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [July 11, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dw-making-code-neater/57216 "2004-07-11T13:47:18Z")
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### Author:  [@Total\_Biscuit](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Total_Biscuit)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dw-making-code-neater/57216/1 "2004-07-11T13:47:18Z")
sorry if the title sounded a little faggoty 😉
I was wondering if DW MX has a command for neatening up code. as it is now, it’s all one giant block of code (nearly anyway) . Now I don’t have a problem with this but as my client (who wants to update the site himself and doesn’t have DW) knows a little HTML but is an elderly man, I want to make the code a little easier on the eyes for him.
EDIT: found the source formatting command
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dw-making-code-neater/57216/2 "2004-07-11T23:13:48Z")
Indeed it does! It also converts your trampish code to XHTML, separates old-style font tags and stuff into CSS and I THINK it indents stuff as well.
If you can’t be bothered getting it though, a text editing program like Textpad ([www.helix.com](http://www.helix.com)) will automatically indent code and stuff which is pretty cool.
Hope this helps, clean up your act, your code and put on some coding cologne
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dw-making-code-neater/57216/3 "2004-07-11T23:19:02Z")
commands\>format HTML