Hiya, been out of the coding world for about 10 years, but want to ask a HTML question regarding monospaced fonts and tabs (using &emsp; as a tab character)

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So I have a dropdown menu on an html page:

style="font-family: Courier New;

And all I want to do is line up the choices with descriptions, but my expected tab stops don't line up exactly

So in the menu dropdown I have:

Um, can't paste in company data, but Family model name then family member name but it doesn't work like regular tabs.

Am I missing something? I thought the whole idea of monospaced fonts was to deal with this very situation

What I have tried:

"4 spaces: "
"2 spaces: "

Same result with Edge, IE, Chrome which are the only allowable company browser choices

Posted 16-Feb-21 20:10pm

Bruce Nielsen

Updated 17-Feb-21 0:21am

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Peter_in_2780 17-Feb-21 2:20am

I'm not sure exactly what you are after, but in that situation I'd use a 2-column table. Browsers are very smart at laying out tables. You can control text alignment per-column.

Peter_in_2780 17-Feb-21 2:22am

Also, whitespace in HTML is not significant in the final layout. Put as many spaces, tabs, newlines as you like, it'll only render one space.

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Jo_vb.net · Answer 1 · 2021-02-16T22:54:00

Solution 1

I had the same problem.
https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/5294374/Why-the-VB-NET-webbrowser-control-shows-only-one-b

using " " instead of a space helped me.

Posted 16-Feb-21 22:54pm

Jo_vb.net

Updated 16-Feb-21 23:03pm

Richard Deeming · Answer 2 · 2021-02-17T00:21:00

Solution 2

You probably need to use the white-space CSS property to control how your spaces are treated.
white-space - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN[^]

Posted 17-Feb-21 0:21am

Richard Deeming