The missing html tab

January 23rd, 2008  |  Published in Thoughts, Internet  |  4 Comments

We’ve had HTML and websites for over a decade now, isn’t it about time we can start using tabs? There’s still no easy way to do this with HTML, which is why most websites have a space between each paragraph instead of a tab. There’s something backwards here. Let’s get a &tab;!

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  1. Tim Challies says:

    January 23rd, 2008 at 9:54 am (#)

    That’s what CSS is for…

    p
    {
    text-indent: 10px
    }

  2. Josh Sowin says:

    January 23rd, 2008 at 10:20 am (#)

    True. But most people don’t know that, and it’s not available in most html editors. A tab entity would make this available, just like it does in text encodings.

  3. Tim Challies says:

    January 23rd, 2008 at 10:39 am (#)

    I’d also have accepted as a reply, “Hey, thanks for letting me know about that CSS trick, Tim. I hadn’t ever heard of that one before.”

  4. Josh Sowin says:

    January 23rd, 2008 at 10:48 am (#)

    If I hadn’t already known about it and used it, that would have been my exact reply.

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