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Asked: May 26, 20262026-05-26T22:46:14+00:00 2026-05-26T22:46:14+00:00

IE interprets a tab as 8 spaces. Notepad++ interprets it as 4 spaces. This

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IE interprets a tab as 8 spaces. Notepad++ interprets it as 4 spaces.

This makes my code look messy and now I have to fix it.

I would think a tab would be a universal length. Is this set via the text encoding.

Is a tab stored the same way and just interpreted differently?

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    2026-05-26T22:46:14+00:00Added an answer on May 26, 2026 at 10:46 pm

    The CSS standard dictates tabs at 8 spaces, in section 16.6.1, second paragraph, item 2:

    Tab stops occur at points that are multiples of 8 times the width of a
    space (U+0020) rendered in the block’s font from the block’s starting
    content edge.

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