Creating a Tab Character within a Placeholder

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I am creating a textarea which has a placeholder that shows what kind of information should be in the textarea. The only problem is, I need to use several special characters. The first is the line break, which I figured out can be created using this:

&#x0a;&#x09;&#x09;&#x09;

However, I am still unsure of how to create a tab character within a placeholder. Is this possible? If so, what can I do to generate a tab character within a placeholder?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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This is Horizontal Tab according to this:

&#x09;

<textarea name="textarea" rows="10" cols="50" placeholder='test&#x09;test2'></textarea></textarea>

Update: I have just tested it under FF 31 and Chrome 36 and it works good.

http://webdesign.about.com/od/localization/l/blhtmlcodes-punc.htm

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Aug 06 '14 at 13:48

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Unfortunately neither of those worked correctly. I pasted the text in just like you put, but it did not work. I use Mozilla Firefox by the way. – Tigerman55 Aug 06 '14 at 13:57
did you set charset correctly? – scx Aug 06 '14 at 14:00
I think so. This is my charset: – Tigerman55 Aug 06 '14 at 14:03
After researching several other articles, I found that this works as a tab character: . – Tigerman55 Aug 06 '14 at 14:07

Creating a Tab Character within a Placeholder

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