Whitespace in RichText field

A form contains a Rich Text field called “body” in which I want to build a formatted report.On one line, I want two character strings separated by five Tabs. I used this LotusScript:

Call body.AppendText(“One”)

Call body.AddTab(5)

Call body.AppendText(“Two”)

Alternately, I could use:

Call body.AppendText(“One”)

Call body.AppendText(Ustring$(5,Chr(9)))

Call body.AppendText(“Two”)

Using either method, the text is correctly formatted when the document is opened in the Notes client. When the same document is opened in a Web browser (IE8) the tabs between the two strings appear as a single space:

One Two

Is there any way to code this so the text is rendered on the Web the same as in Notes?

Thanks