# Css code auto-formating - stop abusing my brackets!

**URL:** <https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/css-code-auto-formating-stop-abusing-my-brackets/883>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [April 24, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/css-code-auto-formating-stop-abusing-my-brackets/883 "2017-04-24T15:53:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![caconym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aca169/32.png) [@caconym](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/caconym)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/css-code-auto-formating-stop-abusing-my-brackets/883/1 "2017-04-24T15:53:48Z")

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Hey that’s great - when I edit a CSS attribute in Pinegrow, the css file automatically updates! Yippee!

But wait… What did you do to my css file? Ah - you automatically assumed that I wanted my curly opening brackets on a new line. Every one of them.

Well I didn’t. I hate it. Yes, that’ my personal opinion and my writing preference (from my twenty years of coding) and I really REALLY don’t suddenly want to start liking it because Pinegrow thinks bracketed blocks should start on a new line.

So please stop it. Right away. Pretty please.

I’m just bouncing between Pinegrow and Bootstrap Studio right now. I guess the least irritating is going to win…

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**Author:** ![schpengle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/schpengle/32/238_2.png) [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/css-code-auto-formating-stop-abusing-my-brackets/883/2 "2017-04-25T07:51:55Z")

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I like it 🙂  
_devils advocate_

but… Ive not been coding for 20 years.

and how about _the most useful_ is going to win?  
🙂

Yes, its early, and Im whiling away time on the forum, so GOOD MORNING @caconym

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**Author:** ![Thomas](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/thomas/32/61_2.png) [@Thomas](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Thomas)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 8:18am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/css-code-auto-formating-stop-abusing-my-brackets/883/3 "2017-04-25T08:18:10Z")

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> [@caconym](#):
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> Well I didn’t. I hate it.

Second this. Even more, PG adds two empty lines on top of each style-sheet.

But you know what? At the end of the day, CodeKit as one of my most important tool developing stuff (and I’m bad on it) ensures a minified and compressed version of css (and js). And brackets has (as far as I remember) an extension for it as well.

But that’s just for the protocol - not mentioned as “no further action required on this” input.

Cheers

Thomas