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Are Tab Characters Preserved in a PRE Element
Are Tab Characters Preserved in a PRE Element? - XHTML 1.0 Tutorials - Body Tag and Block Level Tags
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Yes. Tab characters are preserved in pre elements like other white space characters. Below is a good tutorial example of using "pre" elements:
<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Tab Characters in PRE Elements</title> </head> <body> <pre> XHTML Extensible Hyper-Text Markup Language HTML Hyper-Text Markup Language XML Extensible Markup Language </pre> </body> </html>
If you save the above document as tab.html, and view it with
Internet Explorer, you will see that tab characters are well preserved
by the browser. Line feed characters are also preserved as shown below:

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