Specifying Tab-Width?

Question

Is it possible to define the tab-width when whitespace is displayed (say within a <pre> tag or something)? I can't find anything to do this with CSS, but this seems like it would be a pretty common thing to want to do.

In my case, the tab width is so wide that it causes some of my code snippets on a page to be too wide. If I could somehow shorten the tab-width to make it fit without scrollbars it would make things much easier. (I suppose I could just replace the tabs with spaces, but ideally I would love to find a way to do this without doing that)

Answer 1

I believe this blog post should help you out.

Incidentally, it looks like tab stops made it into the CSS specification.

There's also another Stack Overflow question on this subject.

Answer 2

You could use different space types: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(computer_science)