How to insert spaces/tabs in text using HTML/CSS

问题

Possible ways:

<pre> ... </pre>

style=\"white-space:pre\"

Anything else?

回答1:

To insert tab space between two words/sentences I usually use

&emsp; and &ensp;

回答2:

In cases wherein the width/height of the space is beyond   I usually use:

For horizontal spacer:

<span style="display:inline-block; width: YOURWIDTH;"></span>

For vertical spacer:

<span style="display:block; height: YOURHEIGHT;"></span>

回答3:

You can use   for spaces, < for < (less than, entity number <) and > for > (greater than, entity number >).

A complete list can be found at HTML Entities.

回答4:

Try &emsp;.

As per the documentation at Special Characters:

The character entities &ensp; and &emsp; denote an en space and an em space respectively, where an en space is half the point size and an em space is equal to the point size of the current font. For fixed pitch fonts, the user agent can treat the en space as being equivalent to A space character, and the em space as being equivalent to two space characters.

回答5:

I like to use this:

In your CSS:

.tab { 
       display:inline-block; 
       margin-left: 40px; 
}

In your HTML:

<p>Some Text <span class="tab">Tabbed Text</span></p>

回答6:

Types of Spaces in HTML

Creates four spaces between the text- &emsp;

Creates two spaces between the text - &ensp;

Creates a regular space between the text -  

creates a narrow space ( similar to regular space but slight difference - "&thinsp";

spacing between sentences - "</br>"

This link might help you. Check out [https://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/html-sentences.html]

回答7:

<p style="text-indent: 5em;">
The first line of this paragraph will be indented about five characters, similar to a tabbed indent.
</p>

The first line of this paragraph will be indented about five characters, similar to a tabbed indent.

See How to Use HTML and CSS to Create Tabs and Spacing for more information.

回答8:

<span style="padding-left:68px;"></span>

You can also use:

padding-left
padding-right
padding-top
padding-bottom

回答9:

If you're asking for tabs to align stuff in some lines, you can use <table>.

Putting each line in <tr> ... </tr>. And each element inside that line in <td> ... </td>. And of course you can always control the padding of each table cell to adjust the space between them.

This will make them aligned and they will look pretty nice :)

回答10:

Alternatively referred to as a fixed space or hard space, non-breaking space (NBSP) is used in programming and word processing to create a space in a line that cannot be broken by word wrap.

With HTML,   allows you to create multiple spaces that are visible on a web page and not only in the source code.

回答11:

Go a step further than @Ivar and style my own custom tag like so... For me 'tab' is easier to remember and type.

tab {
    display: inline-block;
    margin-left: 40px;
}

And the HTML implementation...

<p>Left side of the whitespace<tab>Right side of the whitespace</p>

And my screenshot...

回答12:

White space? Couldn't you just use padding? That is an idea. That is how you can add some "blank area" around your element. So you can use the following CSS tags:

padding: 5px;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
padding-left: 5px;
padding-right: 5px;

回答13:

You can use this code   to add a space in the HTML content. For tab space, use it 5 times or more.

Check an example here: https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/tryit.asp?deci=8287&ent=ThickSpace

回答14:

Use the standard CSS tab-size.

To insert a tab symbol (if standard tab key, move cursor) press Alt + 0 + 0 + 9

.element {
    -moz-tab-size: 4;
    tab-size: 4;
}

My preferred:

*{-moz-tab-size: 1; tab-size: 1;}

Look at snippet or quick found example at tab-size.

.t1{
    -moz-tab-size: 1;
    tab-size: 1;
}
.t2{
    -moz-tab-size: 2;
    tab-size: 2;
}
.t4{
    -moz-tab-size: 4;
    tab-size: 4;
}
pre {border: 1px dotted;}

<h3>tab = {default} space</h3>
<pre>
	one tab text
		two tab text
</pre>

<h3>tab = 1 space</h3>
<pre class="t1">
	one tab text
		two tab text
</pre>

<h3>tab = 2 space</h3>
<pre class="t2">
	one tab text
		two tab text
</pre>

<h3>tab = 4 space</h3>
<pre class="t4">
	one tab text
		two tab text
</pre>

回答15:

This worked for me:

In my CSS I have:

tab0  { position:absolute;left:25px;  }
tab1  { position:absolute;left:50px;  }
tab2  { position:absolute;left:75px;  }
tab3  { position:absolute;left:100px; }
tab4  { position:absolute;left:125px; }
tab5  { position:absolute;left:150px; }
tab6  { position:absolute;left:175px; }
tab7  { position:absolute;left:200px; }
tab8  { position:absolute;left:225px; }
tab9  { position:absolute;left:250px; }
tab10 { position:absolute;left:275px; }

Then in the HTML I just use my tabs:

Dog Food <tab3> :$30
Milk <tab3> :$3
Pizza Kit <tab3> :$5
Mt Dew <tab3> :$1.75

回答16:

user8657661's answer is closest to my needs (of lining things up across several lines). However, I couldn't get the example code to work as provided, but I needed to change it as follows:

<html>
    <head>
        <style>
            .tab9 {position:absolute;left:150px; }
        </style>
    </head>

    <body>
        Dog Food: <span class="tab9"> $30</span><br/>
        Milk of Magnesia:<span class="tab9"> $30</span><br/>
        Pizza Kit:<span class="tab9"> $5</span><br/>
        Mt Dew <span class="tab9"> $1.75</span><br/>
    </body>
</html>

If you need right-aligned numbers you can change left:150px to right:150px, but you'll need to alter the number based on the width of the screen (as written the numbers would be 150 pixels from the right edge of the screen).