line break & spaces in source

Dear all,
I am using PSPad for a while now.
But since some timeI found some mystic behavior, which I didn't have before.
When I formatted my source code to make it clearer eg
{
<tr>
<td>...
}

These line breaks and spaces are also in the front end. Especially in chrome it destroys the layout.
I'm programming php / css.
Is there somewhere a hidden option for "different" spaces?

Thanks for your efforts
Best
tsunami

No, there is only one type of spaces - 32 Ascii
Spaces are kept in case when you enclose part of code with CODE or KBD tag

In fact, there are about twenty distinct whitespace characters specified in wide unicode, but in reality you can encounter just regular space, tab and non-breaking space (&nbsp;), the latter could ycrew anything, but is unlikely that it got into your sourcecode without your knowledge. You can check it easily: either turn on "View > Special chars" (regular spaces shows middot, non-breaking remain empty) or navigate to any suspicious part and look into statusbar: regular spaces shows "32 $0020".

Another thing is that as Jan wrote, even regular spaces may be significant under special circumstances (preformatted blocks) and refomatted source could screw something that relies on certain space-collapsing algorythm (especially in old browsers sometimes empty string node in DOM matters a lot to rendering).