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Sep 11, 2013
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Why does Internet Explorer put tab stops at 8-character intervals instead of 4, like all right-thinking people?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

When you embed a TAB character (U+0009) in a <PRE> block (or more precisely, an element whose CSS property is computed to be or ), Internet Explorer will move the current position to the next multiple of eight characters. Many people prefer four. (Some insist that only four is the correct value and anybody who disagrees with them is simply ...

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