@mrentropy The tab character is meaningless in HTML. It can and often is included in HTML code for formatting, just to make the code more human readable. But it has no function. The HTML interpreter ignores multiple spaces and tabs.
That’s where the non-breaking space comes in. In HTML, you can emulate tabs by a construct like:
      Content1
      Content2
Non-breaking spaces didn’t used to work here, and now they DO! Yipee. The ones above lack the closing semicolon, or they wouldn’t be visible. The full entity should be
& n b s p ; without the spaces between the characters. Use that, and stack them up, and you can create apparent tabs like this:
Content1
Content2
That puts 6 white spaces before each line..
Of course, most HTML authors use CSS to create left margin now. Fluther could allow local styles, but not very many of us would know how to use them, and misuse can cause serious display problems, so I think that’s out of the question.