Tab Character Entity for XHTML?

Question

Does anyone know what the character entity for a tab is in xhtml? (Um if there is one)...

Answer 1

(X)HTML has no special support for tabs: they're just another whitespace character, regardless of whether you escape them or not.

Answer 2

Try 	. The TAB is ASCII character #9.

But it may not show up as you'd expect, anyway, since HTML ignores whitespace in most instances.

Answer 3

What most people do to simulate tabs is use DD & DT tags. They are intended creating a glossary:

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