For whatever the reason, Express will portions of my page source and collapse all of the formating to place all of the tags onto a single line. It only seems to be happening on child pages but its annoying the hell out of me.

Any ideas on how to make it stop?

Do you have SP1 and this hotfix http://forums.asp.net/t/1400916.aspx installed?

You can use Edit > Format Document to format a document.

shahed.kazi:

You can use Edit > Format Document to format a document.

That worked, but it would have been nice if you'd mentioned EDIT > FORMAT SELECTION before I Formatted the entire document which deleted out the various tabbing that I had in place. I like to have the start/end tags easily visible as in

<td>

         Content Here

</td>

But I won't complain,.

You can customize per tag formatting - click Per Tag Formatting... button in Tools | Options | Text Editor | HTML | Formatting. Generally formatter preserves spacing as defined in HTML rules. For example, <td>Text</td> is different in the browser from

<td>

Text

</td>

since at least one line break will be rendered as extra space. Formatter tries not to add additional spaces.

I honestly don't believe in killing the messenger, but it does effectly get out a lot of frustration.