Styles & Themes
  • Export Styles
  • Editor Themes
  • Log In
  • Defining Styles
  • Using Style Settings
  • Class Reference
  • Settings Reference
    • Document Settings
    • Headers and Footers
    • Footnotes Area
    • Inline
    • Media
    • Footnotes
    • Paragraph
      • baseline-align
      • colspan
      • default-tab-interval
      • first-line-indent
      • hyphenation
      • justify-line-breaks
      • keep-with-following
      • line-height
      • margin-bottom
      • margin-left
      • margin-right
      • margin-top
      • orphans-and-widows
      • page-break
      • tab-alignments
      • tab-positions
      • text-alignment
    • Divider
    • List
    • Table
    • Table Cell
    • Table of Contents
    • Table of Contents Item
  • Editor Plugins

tab-positions

The start positions for each tabulators. Defaults to default-tab-interval if not given. See tab-alignments for the text alignment of a tabulator. This setting is currently only applied to code blocks.

Availability

Available in: Paragraph, Headers and Footers, Footnotes Area, Figures, Figure Captions, Divider, Block, List, Table, Table Cell, Table of Contents, Table of Contents Item

Type

Array

Default value

None.

Inherited

Yes.

Example

block-code {
  tab-positions:    [4em, 8em, 12em, 16em]
  tab-alignments:   [right, left, left, left]
}

About

Ulysses Styles & Themes is a platform to share styles and themes for Ulysses, the premier text editor for creative writers.

Learn more

  • Ulysses Style Reference
  • How to customize Ulysses
  • Ulysses Homepage

Everything else

  • Privacy
  • Contact Us
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Imprint
© 2026 Ulysses GmbH & Co. KG
...