Formatting inquiries

[Reeling]

Hello, I have been programming in a couple different languages for about 6 months now. I like to keep everything looking good, and make sure I follow the naming conventions and indenting conventions for each language. So naturally I went to the Oracle website and read through the guide about it all and I just have some questions about it. Specifically about where to put the opening parenthesis.

According to Oracle you should start your methods and statements and all these things like this:

if(true){
    stuff here
}

I find this to be hard to follow when the code starts stacking up, and I really prefer to write it like this:

if(true)
{
    stuff here
}

Is it okay that I do this, or should I just bite my tongue and do it the way Oracle says to do it.

Following the same train of thought, they also say to do if statements in a really confusing way, at least to my eyes.

if(true){
    do stuff
}else{
    do stuff
}

I prefer to write it in the same way as before, with each statement on its own separate line and each parenthesis on its own separate line. Is that okay?

if(true)
{
    stuff
}
else
{
    stuff
}

One final question, tabs or spaces?

All feedback is appreciated. Thanks.

[Abizzar]

I mean it honestly is just the coders preference I use tabs and spaces sometimes if it becomes misaligned. Also I prefer to write my code like this:

if(true)
{
       ffff
}

It just makes it look cleaner and organized in my opinion but doing it the other way probably saves more time.

[joshdgreen]

I write my code the same way, except in cases of if statements with one line of code, for example:

if(true)
   stuff
else
   stuff2

or even:

if(true) stuff;
else stuff2;