How to set tab size in GitHub web interface

Question

So I recently created a GitHub account. Among other things a problem that I seem to have it tabs. When you are creating a new folder in repository, Github hasthe following options:

• Indent Mode
  • Spaces
  • Tabs
• Indent Size
  • 2
  • 4
  • 8
• Line Wrap mode
  • No wrap
  • Soft wrap

The problem I seem to be having is that when I set the following values:

• indent mode to tabs
• indent size to 4

When I save that file it is automatically set to tabs and 8

What is going on here?

Why is indent size getting set to 8 even when I specifically set it to 4?

Answer 1

The default tab size in GitHub is set to 8.

You can achieve indentation by using selecting indent mode as spaces and setting it to 4 or whatever you want.

To check the file on GitHub with different indentation you can append ?ts=2 or ?ts=4 to the URL to change the tab-size.