Since I'm using a mobile client, I'm regularly struggling with CB messages which only appear shortened in "normal" CB clients but normal in CB60.

I looked into the HTML source ... could it be that "\t" is translated to an (unbalanced) "<\td>" in the cb sidebar and the rest is chopped?

For reproduction, posting "test\ttest" produces:

• <dd>test    test</dd> (i.e. the original input¹) in CB60
• <span class='content'>test</td></tr> in CB sidebar
• <span class="content">test</span> in "Chatterbox" nodelet

edit

• Possible workaround: pre-filtering input with s/\t/ /g
• Reasoning: The way browsers handle TAB is too random and the CB isn't meant for horizontal formatting anyway
• Alternative s/\t/ &nbsp; &nbsp;/g (updatet)

¹) discussion posts don't seem to preserve tab in inline <c>code</c>, the HTML here will show test &nbsp; &nbsp;test

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