Tab Character Entity for XHTML?

Question

Does anyone know what the character entity for a tab is in xhtml? (Um if there is one)...

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 21 '08 at 15:57

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Try 	. The TAB is ASCII character #9.

But it may not show up as you'd expect, anyway, since HTML ignores whitespace in most instances.

answered Oct 21 '08 at 15:57

mipadi

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 21 '08 at 15:58

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(X)HTML has no special support for tabs: they're just another whitespace character, regardless of whether you escape them or not.

answered Oct 21 '08 at 15:58

Konrad Rudolph

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Indeed. There are, however, some cases where a raw tab in an attribute value will be parsed away to nothing, whereas a character reference will survive into attribute.nodeValue. – bobince Oct 21 '08 at 16:30
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They can be used in `` tags, for spacing. – mipadi Oct 21 '08 at 17:09
And for in `pre` tags. – May 12 '14 at 10:48

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 21 '08 at 16:00

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What most people do to simulate tabs is use DD & DT tags. They are intended creating a glossary:

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answered Oct 21 '08 at 16:00

James Curran

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