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jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 1 · 2008-04-13T01:43:45+00:00

depends on the OS and the settings. UNIX and DOS use different encoding for tabs.

~s.o.s~ 2,560 Failure as a human Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 2 · 2008-04-13T02:56:37+00:00

> UNIX and DOS use different encoding for tabs.

A tab is a tab and nothing but a tab. There is no *different* encoding. It's just the way a tab is rendered (w.r.t. the number of spaces) which differs. Plus AFAIK, it has got nothing to do with the OS as such but rather the piece of software used when visually rendering a tab.

WolfPack 491 Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague · Answer 3 · 2008-04-13T06:47:33+00:00

How do you change this behaviour for firefox and I.E? Anybody know?

MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster · Answer 4 · 2008-04-15T04:51:55+00:00

There used to be settings for tab stop spacing in the browsers. They seem to have been removed.

Dani 4,084 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member · Answer 5 · 2008-04-15T05:14:00+00:00

Really??

I can't imagine that we're the only people who want to be able to change the tab spacing in browsers, so I'm going to continue searching the web for a way to render tabs differently visually while preserving a tab's unique functionality.