Extraneous TR tags

Question

We are experiencing a company wide problem in Dreamweaver CS4 when opening saved files.  DW will, at times, insert <tr  > before some <td> tags.  This occurs when the file is opened, we do not have any of the code rewriting options enabled.  A code snippet is below:
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1">
<cfoutput query="qry">
<cfif qry.currentrow MOD 2 EQ 0>
    <tr class="evenrow">
<cfelse>
    <tr class="oddrow">
</cfif>
        <td>Col 1</td>
    <cfif somevariable EQ 1>
        <td>Value X</td>
    <cfelse>
        <td>Value Y</td>
    </cfif>
        <td>Col 2</td>
        <cfif othervariable EQ 1><td>Col 3</td></cfif>
    </tr>
</cfoutput>
</table>
If this snippet is in any saved file, when opening the file the code will become:
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1">
<cfoutput query="qry">
<cfif qry.currentrow MOD 2 EQ 0>
    <tr class="evenrow">
<cfelse>
    <tr class="oddrow">
</cfif>
        <td>Col 1</td>
    <cfif somevariable EQ 1>
        <tr  ><td>Value X</td>
    <cfelse>
        <td>Value Y</td>
    </cfif>
        <td>Col 2</td>
        <cfif othervariable EQ 1><tr  ><td>Col 3</td></cfif>
    </tr>
</cfoutput>
</table>
Note the <tr  >, it is always a TR tag followed by 2 spaces.
Are there any settings/preferences in DW that can be set to disable this?  We are using DW primarily for editing ColdFusion files, and have only seen the issue when editing CF files (.cfm, .cfc).  It is becoming very difficult to catch this as it occurs immediately when the file is opened, and it does not show that the file has been modified - even though the extra Tr tags are added.
Dreamweaver CS4 (Version 10.0 Build 4117)
Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

We are experiencing a company wide problem in Dreamweaver CS4 when opening saved files.  DW will, at times, insert <tr  > before some <td> tags.  This occurs when the file is opened, we do not have any of the code rewriting options enabled.  A code snippet is below: 
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1">
<cfoutput query="qry">
<cfif qry.currentrow MOD 2 EQ 0>
    <tr class="evenrow">
<cfelse>
    <tr class="oddrow">
</cfif>
        <td>Col 1</td>
    <cfif somevariable EQ 1>
        <td>Value X</td>
    <cfelse>
        <td>Value Y</td>
    </cfif>
        <td>Col 2</td>
        <cfif othervariable EQ 1><td>Col 3</td></cfif>
    </tr>
</cfoutput>
</table>
If this snippet is in any saved file, when opening the file the code will become:
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1">
<cfoutput query="qry">
<cfif qry.currentrow MOD 2 EQ 0>
    <tr class="evenrow">
<cfelse>
    <tr class="oddrow">
</cfif>
        <td>Col 1</td>
    <cfif somevariable EQ 1>
        <tr  ><td>Value X</td>
    <cfelse>
        <td>Value Y</td>
    </cfif>
        <td>Col 2</td>
        <cfif othervariable EQ 1><tr  ><td>Col 3</td></cfif>
    </tr>
</cfoutput>
</table>
Note the <tr  >, it is always a TR tag followed by 2 spaces.
Are there any settings/preferences in DW that can be set to disable this?  We are using DW primarily for editing ColdFusion files, and have only seen the issue when editing CF files (.cfm, .cfc).  It is becoming very difficult to catch this as it occurs immediately when the file is opened, and it does not show that the file has been modified - even though the extra Tr tags are added.
Dreamweaver CS4 (Version 10.0 Build 4117)
Any help would be much appreciated.
The problem is the tag nesting between server-side and client-side tags sometimes confuses DW. The workaround is to restructure your code a little to help DW out.
In this case, rearranging this markup:
<cfif qry.currentrow MOD 2 EQ 0>
    <tr class="evenrow">
<cfelse>
    <tr class="oddrow">
</cfif>
To move the CFML markup inside the <tr> tag:
  <tr class="<cfif qry.currentrow MOD 2 EQ 0>evenrow<cfelse>oddrow</cfif>">
seems to fix the problem.
HTH,
Randy