From the article: Tabs in HTML
Whitespace characters like tabs can be hard to use in Web pages because the browsers collapse them by default. What situations do you need to use tabs, and have to settle for the non-breaking space or other whitespace techniques? Give Examples
Simpler use of nbsp
- For an occasional use of "tabs", it is more efficient to intersperse the with actual spaces, rather than a series of . For example if you use (space) (space) (space) you get 5 spaces for with just 2 nbsp.
- —Guest Steve
CSS for whitespace
- I use CSS to indent the first line of all paragraphs and for white space in general.
- —normoose
how to use tab in webpage
- I like to indent my paragraphs one tab, and I want to do this on my Web pages as well. I'm glad I learned how to do it with CSS, as it was annoying it wouldn't work with the tab key.
- —Guest atul
Still Prefer CSS
- There are times a nbsp is needed, phone-numbers, anything you want to stay glued regardless of space, things like that. For paragraphs indentation though, this is not the answer at all. If you're inserting paragraphs into a page then the p tag should be used. You can then use the text-indent property to space it. You can even use CSS selectors to indent only the paragraphs directly following the the first paragraph using p + p.
- —Guest Michael
paragraphs
- I like to indent my paragraphs one tab, and I want to do this on my Web pages as well. I'm glad I learned how to do it with CSS, as it was annoying it wouldn't work with the tab key.
- —Guest Maos
