sorry for this one, tab tag

[crystalized]

I don't have my html book handy and can't remember off hand.

Is there a tag that puts a tab into your output, or do I just have to use spaces.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[palbano]

Are you talking about the <pre></pre> element, otherwise HTML ignores white space characters.

-pete

 

[crystalized]

I meant &quot;&nbsp;&quot; for spaces to force whitespace,

I don't remember using one before but I thought there might be a tag that forces a couple of whitespace spaces.

In the end I just used a couple of &nbsp; spaces and it worked just fine.

 

[crystalized]

Apparently this forum recognizes the whitespace nbsp(preceeded by & and followed by a as well, that is why my last post just has spaces where I entered what I used for spaces.

 

[palbano]

Dear Crystal,

Those are called 'entities' not 'tags' or 'elements', i.e.,

<strong> is a 'tag' or 'element'

&nbsp; is an entity

Anyway the entire ASCII character set can theoretically be used by preceding the decimal value of the ASCII character with an ampersand and a pound sign... so a Tab character (9) would be this &#09; Let's see what it does between 'hello' and 'world':

Hello World

On my IE5 on NT4 that displays as a single space.

I have no idea what browser support you will find for this. It's not likely you will get the behavior you desire.

Hope this helps
-pete

 

[crystalized]

Sorry I did not know those were referred to as entities. I guess you learn something new every day.

As to support on many browsers, I can live without the whitespace if it does not happen. I predict that most of the time what I am building will be viewed on the big 2 browsers. It is for a group that uses primarily MS products.

 

[palbano]

Well my previous post makes no sense at all. My attempt to exactly display entities does not work in the resultant post (it does in the TT preview).

&-#09 without the dash is the tab entity