Hi

if I look with Chrome at that post

and at the embedded code I notice that the tab width settings are 4 and 8.

And it's also 8 if I copy that code to the textarea for composing a post. ²

Suggestion: Is there a way to homogenize that to one of these? Best with CSS?

There is no need to discuss that mixing tabs and whitespace is a bad habit, or that the mainstream is against tabs for formatting. And I don't really have an opinion which width would be better suited here...°

But I think it would be beneficial for newbies if they saw the same result before and after posting.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) My subjective preference is 4, which doesn't mean it's the objective overall solution.

²) Which means the OP didn't notice the problematic display prior to submitting.

update

there is a CSS setting called tab-size

see

and when I use the dev-console in my browser to change the style, it seems to work fine...

plz check with other browsers and discuss the options. :)

In reply to Consistent tab width settings by LanX

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