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Tab

Insert a tab. The text after it continues at the next tab stop set with the CSS property -bag-tab-stops. Without tab stops, the tab advances by tab-size. Unlike a tab character in the text, this command is never collapsed to a space.

Child elements

(none)

Parent elements

A, B, I, Li, Paragraph, Span, U

Attributes

(none)

Example

<StyleSheet>
  p.toc { -bag-tab-stops: 8mm, 100% end leader(dotted) }
</StyleSheet>

<Record match="data">
  <PlaceObject>
    <TextBlock>
      <Paragraph class="toc">
        <Value>1</Value><Tab/><Value>Introduction</Value><Tab/><Value>3</Value>
      </Paragraph>
    </TextBlock>
  </PlaceObject>
</Record>

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