HTML tab

I came across this while searching for a method and ended up figuring out my own that seems to work easily for what's wanted. I'm new to posting here so I hope this works... But have this in CSS:

span.tab{
    padding: 0 80px; /* Or desired space*/
}

Then in your HTML have this be your "long tab" in mid sentence like I needed:

 class="tab">

Saves from the amount of   or   that you'd need.
Hope this helps someone, cheers