How to get a tab character?

Question

In HTML, there is no character for a tab, but I am confused as to why I can copy and paste one here: . (You can\'t see the full width of it, but if you click to edit my q

Answer 1

Try  

as per the docs :

The character entities   and   denote an en space and an em space respectively, where an en space is half the point size and an em space is equal to the point size of the current font. For fixed pitch fonts, the user agent can treat the en space as being equivalent to A space character, and the em space as being equuivalent to two space characters.

Docs link : https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/specialchars.html