can't get there from here

In HTML consecutive white space characters are replaced by a single space. The only exception is in a preformatted area <pre>...</pre>. Within those tags white space is respected. As for tab handling within the preformatted area, the HTML 4 spec has this to say on the subject:

The horizontal tab character

The horizontal tab character (decimal 9 in [link|http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/references.html#ref-ISO10646|[ISO10646]] and [link|http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/references.html#ref-ISO88591|[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.

See it [link|http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.3.4|here].

Eight shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be eight. :-)

Post #148,719 by cforde 3/26/04 3:42:00 AM Reply	can't get there from here In HTML consecutive white space characters are replaced by a single space. The only exception is in a preformatted area <pre>...</pre>. Within those tags white space is respected. As for tab handling within the preformatted area, the HTML 4 spec has this to say on the subject: The horizontal tab character The horizontal tab character (decimal 9 in [link\|http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/references.html#ref-ISO10646\|[ISO10646]] and [link\|http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/references.html#ref-ISO88591\|[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. See it [link\|http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.3.4\|here]. Eight shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be eight. :-) Have fun, Carl Forde
Post #148,721 by deSitter 3/26/04 4:20:29 AM Reply	Whom God favors, he shall be allowed the half measure of Tab -drl
Post #148,807 by ben_tilly 3/26/04 1:58:31 PM Reply	Look at the root post... Scott's code has tabs. And is formatted in a way that I dislike. I'd like to see the same code, formatted in a way that I like. This is possible if Scott substitutes hard spaces for the tab up front. Which he could do with his HTML handler. (But probably isn't worthwhile.) I was mostly asking as a way of pointing out to Scott that his note that I should just set the tabstop like he does isn't entirely feasible. Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]

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