Title: HTML source code question
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# HTML source code question

 *  [rsl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rsl/)
 * (@rsl)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code-question/)
 * How can I get rid of the nasty [to me, anyway] indentation that WP adds with 
   tags like wp_get_archives() and others? I’ve removed most all my indentation 
   because I didn’t like the way it was looking. I’d like to get to the bottom of
   this indentation as well.
 * Yes, I know I must be some sort of freak among geeks to care this much about 
   my source code, but I do.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code-question/#post-135412)
 * In View Source view ?
    I don’t think you can as it’s part of the way browsers
   interpret the code too. Drives me nuts as well – I hate indentation 🙂
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code-question/#post-135420)
 *     Hey.
 *         What’s wrong with indents?
 * The indents are usually caused by `<li>` tags. Most of the “menubar” template
   tags output links as a list. Some let you override this through their parameters,
   and some would have to be circumvented through css.
 *  Thread Starter [rsl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rsl/)
 * (@rsl)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code-question/#post-135511)
 * I’ve looked in the PHP functions [in the wp-includes directory] and all I find
   are echo’ed variables. Does the indentation of an echo call affect the text echo’ed?
 *  [rustindy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rustindy/)
 * (@rustindy)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code-question/#post-135513)
 * podz, browsers ignore extraneous whitespace completely (like tabs and multiple
   spaces), and IE and FireFox (and probably all other browsers) display the source
   file exactly as it’s sent from the server – they don’t add tabs or spaces to 
   the View Source.
 * RSL, look for the PHP escaped tab command – it’s `/t` and will always be enclosed
   by quotation marks. Removing that slash-t command from `echo` commands and variables
   will remove the tabs. But I don’t recommend it.
 *  [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/)
 * (@techgnome)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-source-code-question/#post-135532)
 * And while you are at it, look through all your template files too….. you’ll want
   to remove all the tabbing & spacing in there too…
 * Tg

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