Can I set up tab stops in html5?

Question

I would like to set up tab stops in html5 and be able to align text to them, just like in Word. For my application I can\'t use tables. Is there a way to do this? Do I have t

Answer 1

Despite the assertions of the other posters to the contrary, there are valid reasons to want to do what the OP asked and many ways to do it using modern CSS (and more in the draft specification process as I write this). Here is just one way.

 
  
  
 
 
  
first row data before first tabdata left aligned with first tabdata aligned with second tab


  
second row data before first tabdata left aligned with first tabdata aligned with second tab


  
third row data before first tabdata left aligned with first tabdata aligned with second tab


  
fourth row data before first tabdata left aligned with first tabdata aligned with second tab


  
fifth row data before first tabdata left aligned with first tabdata aligned with second tab


 

See sample results here: http://jsfiddle.net/Td285/

Another example, with overflow clipped: http://jsfiddle.net/KzhP8/