- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:03:45 +0100
- To: "Ambrose Li" <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Cc: "David Woolley" <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:52:09 +0100, Ambrose Li <ambrose.li@gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/12/9 Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>: >> >> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:33:08 +0100, David Woolley >> <forums@david-woolley.me.uk> wrote: >>> >>> I'm assuming that a tab isn't just a macro for n spaces, as that >>> doesn't >>> seem a reasonable interpretation. >> >> Why not? That's exactly how tab is defined in CSS today. (And how most >> text >> editors go about it, as far as I know.) > > I doubt it. Otherwise AB<tab>C and A<tab>C will never line up under > any circumstances; a tab that is simply a macro for n spaces is > useless. Well yeah, it's slightly more complicated than that, which is why the property is called tab-stop rather than tab, but in the end it's expressed as a number of spaces. (See section 16.6.1 of CSS 2.1.) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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