232496 - Javascript Tab Escape Sequence not rendered as tab.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 50348

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Keith Maika]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031223

When using the escape sequence for a tab character in javascript alert boxes, a
tab is not inserted in is place.  The actual behaviour depends on how it's used.

In code like this:
alert('abc\txyz');
The \t is simple replaced with a space so the output is 'abc xyz'

In code like this:
alert('abc\n\txyz');
Nothing is inserted in for the tab, the output is like so:
abc
xyz



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:


Actual Results:  
No tab is created.

Expected Results:  
In code like this:
alert('abc\txyz');
The output should be like:
abc     xyz

In code like this:
alert('abc\n\txyz');
The output should be like:
abc
      xyz

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50348 ***