diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibGfx/TextLayout.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibGfx/TextLayout.cpp
index f3f4a4d70ea..e580c0759c6 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibGfx/TextLayout.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibGfx/TextLayout.cpp
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ RefPtr<GlyphRun> shape_text(FloatPoint baseline_start, Utf8View string, Gfx::Fon
     Vector<Gfx::DrawGlyph> glyph_run;
     FloatPoint point = baseline_start;
     for (size_t i = 0; i < glyph_count; ++i) {
-        if (input_glyph_info[i].codepoint == '\t')
-            continue;
 
         auto position = point
             - FloatPoint { 0, font.pixel_metrics().ascent }
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/Layout/InlineLevelIterator.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/Layout/InlineLevelIterator.cpp
index d950452bf0a..ed657f7f270 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/Layout/InlineLevelIterator.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/Layout/InlineLevelIterator.cpp
@@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ Optional<InlineLevelIterator::Item> InlineLevelIterator::next_without_lookahead(
             }
             tab_stop_dist = tab_stop_dist * num_of_tabs;
 
+            // remove tabs, we don't want to render them when we shape the text
+            chunk.view = chunk.view.substring_view(num_of_tabs);
             x = tab_stop_dist.to_float();
         }