HTML DOM Style tabSize property
Examples
Setting tabSize a <pre> element:
document.getElementById("myPRE").style.tabSize="16";
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Definition and Usage
tabSize attribute specifies the length of the space tabs (tab) characters.
In HTML, the tabs (tab) characters are usually displayed as a single space character, except for some elements, such as <textarea> and <pre>, the result tabSize property is valid only for those elements.
Browser Support
Currently only supports Chrome tabSize property.
Firefox supports another alternative of the property attribute that MozTabSize property.
Opera supports another alternative of the property attribute that OTabSize property.
There is no browser supports this value as the unit of length.
grammar
Back tabSize properties:
object .style.tabSize
Setting tabSize properties:
object .style.tabSize="number|length|initial|inherit"
Property Value
| 值 | 描述 |
|---|---|
| number | 默认值是 8。规定每个制表符（tab）字符要显示的空格字符的数量。 |
| length | 规定制表符（tab）字符的长度。几乎所有的主流浏览器都不支持该属性值。 |
| initial | 设置该属性为它的默认值。请参阅 initial 。 |
| inherit | 从父元素继承该属性。请参阅 inherit 。 |
technical details
| Defaults: | 8 |
|---|---|
| return value: | String representing the tab-size property element. |
| CSS version | CSS3 |
related articles
CSS Reference Manual: the Tab-size property