Formatting Alerts/confirm In Firefox 1.5.0.1

minnieadkins · February 9, 2006

I was trying to use the \t to tab in Firefox 1.5.0.1. It works in IE 6. I haven't tried it in other other browser, but I was wondering if there's something I'm doing wrong. I tried a simple test page to see if it was my script, and the test page gave me the same results. It worked in IE6 but not Firefox.

I also tried putting in " " for tabs instead of using the \t escape. Firefox just ignores the white space I guess. Any ideas on formatting it?

I'll post the test I did:

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE><script type="text/JavaScript" language="JavaScript"><!--function test(){alert("\t\tCENTER!\t\t");}--></SCRIPT></HEAD><BODY onload="test();"></BODY></HTML>

miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG · February 10, 2006

Umm i dunno about the \t tab, and I know whitespace " " will be ignored. Your quick and dirty solution would be to use the character which represents a single space. So in effect, putting four or eight of in a row would give you your typical tab.

Example:

alert("    CENTER!    ");

iGuest · February 10, 2006

hey minnieadkins,

This doesn't have tab stops, so lining up elements would be troublesome, but you can do:

var tab = '\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003';var replacement = /\t/g;var string = 'this is a\t test str\ting'.replace(replacement, tab);alert(string);

It's unfortunate that FF and a lot of other browsers remove this whitespace.

Cheers,

MC

Jack Cheng · March 1, 2006

Umm i dunno about the \t tab, and I know whitespace " " will be ignored. Your quick and dirty solution would be to use the character which represents a single space. So in effect, putting four or eight of in a row would give you your typical tab.

Example:
alert("    CENTER!    ");

The is specific only to HTML. In javascript, it is rendered as is - it is not changed to a space (so the message in the alert box is CENTER! , instead of Center! .

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