[css-text] Support Basic Elastic Tabstops
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- css
- Domain
- web-dev
Research direction
Start with the CSS Text Level 3 tab-size property and review the linked discussions from 2007, 2012, 2013, and 2014. The issue proposes an elastic keyword but does not identify files, tests, or an implementation path; done would require a resolved specification proposal and corresponding implementer agreement.
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Description
The tab-size property, determining the width of preserved Horizontal Tabulator (U+0009) chars, currently accepts <number> | <length> as its value. I wish CSS also supported a keyword to implement a basic version of Elastic Tabstops, e.g. elastic, but without explicitly set tabstop positions. An elastic tabulator would advance a single space width (1ch), except when there is also a tabulator in the line above, when it advances as much as is needed to align with that.
A more complex proposal to specify fixed tabstops has been discussed briefly in the past on www-style by @NickGravgaard (inventor of Elastic Tabstops), @fantasai, @SimonSapin, @LiamQuin and myself without any apparent conclusion or result (except lack of implementer interest):
An earlier draft of this module has had tabstop support.
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