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  Re: Width of tab character in Firefox. David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-02-18 22:10 +0100
    Width of tab character in Firefox. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-02-19 00:20 +0100
      Re: Width of tab character in Firefox. Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-02-19 00:50 +0100
        Re: Width of tab character in Firefox. Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-02-19 07:50 +0100
          Re: Width of tab character in Firefox. Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-02-19 08:10 +0100

#231840 — Re: Width of tab character in Firefox.

On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 08:00, <peter@easthope.ca> wrote:
>
> In Debian 10, firefox-esr 78.5.0esr-1~deb10u1, what mechanism is
> available to control rendering of a tab character?
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox doesn't mention "tab" or "css". Is
> there a user editable css file for firefox?

I used a search engine with keywords "html tab width render"
and immediately found this:
https://usefulangle.com/post/151/css-tab-size

Does it help?

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#231843

    From: David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>
    Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 08:04:46 +1100
> I used a search engine with keywords "html tab width render"
> and immediately found this:
> https://usefulangle.com/post/151/css-tab-size

Your search was more productive than mine.

> Does it help?

Instructions are plausible.  Found userChrome.css mentioned here.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Tweaks

Therefore made this.

peter@joule:/home/peter$ cat ~/.mozilla/firefox/cizpqwpf.default/chrome/userChro
me.css
#element {
        /* set size of tab key to 4 white spaces */
        -moz-tab-size: 4;
        tab-size: 4;
}

Tab width hasn't changed yet.   =8~/

Thx,              ... P.




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#231844

peter@easthope.ca composed on 2021-02-18 14:57 (UTC-0800):

> Instructions are plausible.  Found userChrome.css mentioned here.
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Tweaks

> Therefore made this.
> 
> peter@joule:/home/peter$ cat ~/.mozilla/firefox/cizpqwpf.default/chrome/userChro
> me.css
> #element {
>         /* set size of tab key to 4 white spaces */
>         -moz-tab-size: 4;
>         tab-size: 4;
> }

> Tab width hasn't changed yet.   =8~/
										
userChrome.css is for UI text. userContent.css is for window content, which will
largely or entirely be overridden by web page CSS most of the time, unless you
spend a lot of time overriding the specific overrides, or use an add-on to
override the overrides for you.
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#231852

On Thu, 2021-02-18 at 18:43 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> peter@easthope.ca composed on 2021-02-18 14:57 (UTC-0800):
> 
> > Instructions are plausible.  Found userChrome.css mentioned here.
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Tweaks
> > Therefore made this.
> > 
> > peter@joule:/home/peter$ cat ~/.mozilla/firefox/cizpqwpf.default/chrome/userChro
> > me.css
> > #element {
> >         /* set size of tab key to 4 white spaces */
> >         -moz-tab-size: 4;
> >         tab-size: 4;
> > }
> > Tab width hasn't changed yet.   =8~/
> 										
> userChrome.css is for UI text. userContent.css is for window content, which will
> largely or entirely be overridden by web page CSS most of the time, unless you
> spend a lot of time overriding the specific overrides, or use an add-on to
> override the overrides for you.

Or use !important property in your CSS, or do websites have a tendency
of fighting you by using that too?

I use { display: none!important; } in my userContent.css to stop
annoying elements on some website I frequent, or other hacks to fix
broken sites.

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#231853

Tixy composed on 2021-02-19 06:39 (UTC):

> On Thu, 2021-02-18 at 18:43 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
										
>> userChrome.css is for UI text. userContent.css is for window content, which will
>> largely or entirely be overridden by web page CSS most of the time, unless you
>> spend a lot of time overriding the specific overrides, or use an add-on to
>> override the overrides for you.

> Or use !important property in your CSS, or do websites have a tendency
> of fighting you by using that too?

> I use { display: none!important; } in my userContent.css to stop
> annoying elements on some website I frequent, or other hacks to fix
> broken sites.
										
Actually, !important is an absolute necessity for virtually every userContent.css
rule. Even then, excessive specificity and overuse of most internet CSS will make
your effort mostly for naught without including it for nearly every rule.
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