If you mean the crazy amount of whitespace, it may be caused by a templating system. For instance, in JSP JSTL:<p><pre><code> <c:choose>
<c:when test="${!empty article}">
<c:out value="${article}"/>
</c:when>
<c:when test="${!empty comments}">
<c:out value="${article}"/>
</c:when>
</c:choose>
</code></pre>
Each of the choose/when tags has a newline after it, so even though the tag is not output into the resulting HTML source, it causes a literal newline to be emitted. This doesn't normally matter, since HTML collapses multiple runs of whitespace into a single space.<p>However, for places where you can't have any whitespace (like the middle of a word) you can work around that by concatenating all the tags into one long line, or by strange arrangements of opening/closing angle brackets:<p><pre><code> <c:choose
><c:when test="..."
><c:out ... /
></c:when
></c:choose>
</code></pre>
Some webservers like Tomcat also provide the ability to strip all excess outgoing whitespace, which preserves the readability of the source files.
I use smarty, and making the template logic readable sometimes leaves extra newlines and whitespace. You can wrap {strip}{/strip} tags around it to remove it though. This is what I use to get all code in a single line as on <a href="http://www.dealspyer.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.dealspyer.com</a>
Only time I've seen that happen was with ColdFusion or Java-powered sites that don't strip the lines used by inline logic, eg where you see 10 empty lines, there might be an if/else snippet running. At runtime, the language runs through those parts, but keeps the space intact.