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Tab Character Size

Allows you to change the number of characters making up a tab. Value can be an integer (representing number of spaces) or a length value.

Specification

Tab Character Size on W3C

Example Code

.element {
  tab-size: 4;
}

Live Demonstration

The lines below are both indented by 2 tab stops, but they have differing tab size values (2 and 4).

This line is indented by 2 tab stops.

This line is indented by 2 tab stops.

Browser Support

Can I Use css3-tabsize? Data on support for the tab-size feature across the major browsers from caniuse.com.

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