Editing Indentation style (section)

{{Short description|Computer programming convention}}
{{broader|Indentation (typesetting)}}
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In [[computer programming]], '''indentation style''' is a [[Convention (norm)|convention]] or [[programming style|style]], governing the [[Indentation (typesetting)|indentation]] of lines of [[source code]]. An indentation style generally specifies a consistent number of [[whitespace character]]s before each line of a block, so that the lines of code appear to be related, and dictates whether to use [[Space (punctuation)|spaces]] or [[Tab character|tabs]] as the indentation character.