The tab-size
CSS property is used to customize the width of tab characters (U+0009).
The tab-size
CSS property is used to customize the width of tab characters (U+0009).
Initial value | 8 |
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Applies to | block containers |
Inherited | yes |
Computed value | the specified integer or an absolute length |
Animation type | a length |
This example compares a default tab size with a custom tab size. Note that white-space
is set to pre
to prevent the tabs from collapsing.
<p>no tab</p> <p>	default tab size of 8 characters wide</p> <p class="custom">	custom tab size of 3 characters wide</p> <p> 3 spaces, equivalent to the custom tab size</p>
Specification |
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CSS Text Module Level 3 # tab-size-property |
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
tab-size |
21This property is not yet animatable. |
79This property is not yet animatable. |
914Before Firefox 53, this property was not animatable. |
No | 1510.5–15 | 7 | 4.4 | 25This property is not yet animatable. |
914Before Firefox 53, this property was not animatable. |
1411–14 | 7 | 1.5This property is not yet animatable. |
length |
42 | 79 | 53 | No | 29 | 13.1 | 56 | 42 | 53 | 29 | 13.4 | 4.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/tab-size