When in the HTML tab, look at the the CSS pane on the right. Click the dropdown arrow at the right of the Style tab and uncheck 'Expand Shorthand Properties'.
You should be back to normal. hth, d On Aug 31, 11:06 pm, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 31, 11:52 am, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sure thing. When I have a page open and open Firebug, then drill down > > to the element I want to play with, I tab down to a new line within > > the CSS rule for that element. I type "margin" and then hit tab and > > enter whatever...like 10px 0 0 20px for example. When I tab to a new > > line, it keeps that format of the shorthand. But when I click (so I > > can copy and paste into my stylesheet) that's when Firebug breaks it > > out into the margin-top, margin-left, etc. lines. Does that help? > > 1. openhttp://getfirebug.com, open Firebug reload, > 2. Firebug > HTML panel, select 'body' tag, > 3. Style side panel, body element, click on font-size, > 4. hit TAB two times, firebug opens an editor for a property > 5. type 'margin' TAB, firebug opens editor for values, type "10px 0 0 > 20px" > 6. Click a the end of the line past the editor, swipe back to the > beginning of the line, copy. > Paste is: > margin:10px 0 0 20px; > > Is that what you meant? If so, then there is something different in > your environment. I have Win7, FF 3.6.10pre, Firebug and Chromebug. > > jjb > > > > > On Aug 31, 1:07 pm, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Aug 31, 10:48 am, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I don't know the verbiage, but when I add a shorthand CSS, like > > > > margin, and click out, Firebug will automatically split it out to > > > > margin-top, margin-left, etc. instead of keeping the shorthand > > > > version. This happens on all other kinds of shorthand rules. Is there > > > > a way to make it so it doesn't do this?? > > > > Please tell us what steps you are using. For example, I tried to > > > reproduce your report like this: > > > 1. openhttp://getfirebug.com, open Firebug reload, > > > 2. Firebug > HTML panel, select 'body' tag, > > > 3. Style side panel, body element, right click New Property > > > 4. Type 'margin'. Click on the web page in white space. > > > Firebug removes the empty rule. > > > > jjb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
