Thanks, that did the trick!

On Aug 31, 6:05 pm, cheekybuddha <cheekybud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 <johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 31, 11:52 am, Nathan <dirtyvols...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Sure thing. When I have a page open and openFirebug, 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 whenFirebugbreaks it
> > > out into the margin-top, margin-left, etc. lines. Does that help?
>
> > 1. openhttp://getfirebug.com, openFirebugreload,
> > 2.Firebug> HTML panel, select 'body' tag,
> > 3. Style side panel, body element, click on font-size,
> > 4. hit TAB two times,firebugopens an editor for a property
> > 5. type 'margin' TAB,firebugopens 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,Firebugand Chromebug.
>
> > jjb
>
> > > On Aug 31, 1:07 pm, John J Barton <johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com> wrote:
>
> > > > On Aug 31, 10:48 am, Nathan <dirtyvols...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > I don't know the verbiage, but when I add a shorthand CSS, like
> > > > > margin, and click out,Firebugwill 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, openFirebugreload,
> > > > 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.
> > > >Firebugremoves the empty rule.
>
> > > > jjb

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