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With HTML, you are working in the sort of language which is hidden from you when you use a word processor. That is why if something is a paragraph, it has to be marked that way. Ditto for everything else.
This is why a number of people start with a word processor, Word, Atlantis Word Processor to create all of these basic things as HTML files or as epubs, using addons like Toxaris' or AWP which publishes epubs. Then they use Sigil or the Calibre Editor to tweak things at the very end when they aren't be displayed as desired.
Sigil has a function, Flight Crew, which tells you whether you are doing well in working with HTML. You should not do much at one time given your skill level right now, without running Flight Crew or if using the Calibre Editor, Check book.
There are no tabs, but Sigil can create indents, but most things act at the paragraph level without some intervention from you. You can check out the tutorials. It might be helpful to you to open an epub you admire in Sigil and look at the code view and see how it is done. Book View, just like the image you see on the display of a word processor, is dependent on the underlying hidden language. If the underlying language is not right, then when you try to drive it in an e-reader, it may lock up or look bizarre with whole sections missing.
Believe it, I made a four line table disappear this morning because the underlying code was defective.
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