How do I replicate a t tab space in HTML

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How can I use the common  t escape character in html   Is it possible   I need a code that has the same function as the  t escape character

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You can use this   amp emsp  or   amp ensp   It works on Visual Studio

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HTML doesn t have escape characters  as it doesn t use escape-semantics for reserved characters  instead you use SGML entities   amp amp    amp lt    amp gt  and  amp quot     SGML does not have a named-entity for the tab character as it exists in most character sets  i e  0x09 in ASCII and UTF-8   rendering it completely unnecessary  i e  simply press the Tab key on your keyboard   If you re working with code that generates HTML  e g  a server-side application  e g  ASP NET  PHP or Perl  then you might need to escape it then  but only because the server-side language demands it - it has nothing to do with HTML  like so   echo   lt pre gt  t tTABS  t t lt  pre gt      But  you can use SGML entities to represent any ISO-8859-1 character by hexadecimal value  e g   amp  09  for a tab character

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You can enter the tab character  U 0009 CHARACTER TABULATION  commonly known as TAB or HT  using the character reference  amp  9   It is equivalent to the tab character as such  Thus  from the HTML viewpoint  there is no need to    escape    it using the character reference  but you may do so e g  if your editing program does not let you enter the character conveniently   On the other hand  the tab character is in most contexts equivalent to a normal space in HTML  It does not    tabulate     it   s just a word space   The tab character has  however  special handling in pre elements and  although this not that well described in specifications  in textarea and xmp element  in the latter  character references cannot be used  only the tab character as such   This is described somewhat misleadingly in HTML specifications  e g  in HTML 4 01      Inside the pre element    the horizontal tab character  decimal 9 in  ISO10646  and  ISO88591    is usually interpreted by visual user agents as the smallest non-zero number of spaces necessary to line characters up along tab stops that are every 8 characters  We strongly discourage using horizontal tabs in preformatted text since it is common practice  when editing  to set the tab-spacing to other values  leading to misaligned documents      The warnings are unnecessary except as regards to the potential mismatch of tabbing in your authoring software and HTML rendering in browsers  The real reason for avoiding horizontal tab is that it a coarse and simplistic tool as compared with tables for presenting tabular material  And in displaying computer source programs  it is better to use just spaces inside pre  since the default tab stops at every 8 characters are quite unsuitable for any normal code indentation style   In addition  in CSS  you can specify white-space  pre  or  with slightly more limited browser support  white-space  pre-wrap  to make a normal HTML element  like div or p  rendered like pre  so that all whitespace is preserved and horizontal tab has the    tabbing    effect   In CSS Text Module Level 3  Last Call working draft  i e  proceeding towards maturity   there is also the tab-size property  which can be used to set the distance between tab stops  e g  tab-size  3  It   s supported by newest versions of most browsers  but not IE  not even IE 11

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This simple formula should work  Give the element whose text will contain a tab the following CSS property  white-space pre  Otherwise your html may not render tabs at all  Then  wherever you want to have a tab in your text  type  amp  9    Since you didn t mention CSS  if you want to do this without a CSS file  just use   lt tag-name style  white-space pre  gt text in element amp  9 more text lt  tag-name gt    in your HTML

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You must use    lt dd gt   lt  dd gt    in the html code    lt dd gt A free  open source  cross-platform graphical web browser developed by theMozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers  lt  dd gt   ---------------------------------- Firefox     A free  open source  cross-platform  graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla      Corporation and hundreds of volunteers

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amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  would be a work around if you re only after the spacing

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The same issue exists for a Mediawiki  It does not provide tabs  nor are consecutive spaces allowed    Although not really a TAB function  the workaround was to add a template named  Tab   which replaces each call  i e    tab    by 4 non-breaking space symbols     amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp     Those are not collapsed  and create a 4 space distance anywhere used  It s not really a tab  because it would not align to fixed tab positions  but I still find many uses for it   Maybe someone can come up with similar mechanism for a Wiki Template in HTML   CSS class or whatever

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I need a code that has the same function as the  t escape character   What function do you mean  creating a tabulator space    No such thing in HTML  you ll have to use HTML elements for that   A  lt table gt  may make sense for tabular data  or a description list  lt dl gt  for definitions

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