diff --git a/js/JavaScriptParser.js b/js/JavaScriptParser.js
index d7835b3f7..9fba14b61 100644
--- a/js/JavaScriptParser.js
+++ b/js/JavaScriptParser.js
@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@ var JavaScriptParser = function(options) {
     this.store = options.store;
 };
 
-// Parse a string of JavaScript code or JSON and return the parse tree as a wikitext parse tree
+// Parse a string of JavaScript code and return the parse tree as a wikitext parse tree
 JavaScriptParser.prototype.parse = function(type,code) {
+	// Simplisticly replace tabs with spaces. Browsers will happily render tabs but most default to 8 character tab stops
+	code = code.replace(/\t/mg,"    ");
 	// Try to parse the code
 	var parseTree;
 	try {