Title: Tab Space?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Tab Space?

 *  [theamericanmoderate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theamericanmoderate/)
 * (@theamericanmoderate)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tab-space/)
 * How can I do a tab space in the built in editor in 2.0? I do the tab, and it 
   shows up in the editor, but when I publish the page, the tab is gone. It makes
   the articles harder to read in my opinion.

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 *  [sluggo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sluggo/)
 * (@sluggo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tab-space/#post-453911)
 * You can’t really put tabs in web pages; browsers will condense them down to one
   space, like they do with multiple spaces. If you need to include them, you have
   to include them in `pre` tags; but I think WP’s editor will still throw them 
   out in that case.
 * I have a feeling you’re thinking about web pages the wrong way if you’re trying
   to insert tabs. What are you trying to accomplish? There’s probably a better 
   way.
 *  [Jonathan Landrum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonlandrum/)
 * (@jonlandrum)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tab-space/#post-453920)
 * I’m doing something similar using the CSS pseudo element `:first-line`. Just 
   set the `text-indent` property to something like 25px or 2em.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tab-space/#post-453920)
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