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I have a dropdown list that I would like to put in a bunch of  's into
it (I'm setting the font to a monospace font so I can show a couple of
columns nice and neat).

In the old asp days, I had no problem doing this, but now if I try to do
something like this...

boxOption.Items .Add(New ListItem("myFir stCol &nbs p; myLastC ol"))

....it converts each & to a &

Any way to make the non-breaking space to work properly...or should I say,
they way I want it to?

Thanks.

-Rob T.

Nov 18 '05 #1
2 1985
Rob,

This behaviour is hard-coded into the RenderContents method of the
DropDownList class. Luckily, DropDownList is not sealed, so you can
easily override the behaviour.

HTH,
Nicole
"Rob T" <RT*********@DO NTwalchemSPAM.c om> wrote in message
news:u6******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...
I have a dropdown list that I would like to put in a bunch of &nbsp;'s into
it (I'm setting the font to a monospace font so I can show a couple of
columns nice and neat).

In the old asp days, I had no problem doing this, but now if I try to do
something like this...

boxOption.Items .Add(New ListItem("myFir stCol&nbsp;&nbs p;&nbsp;myLastC ol"))

...it converts each & to a &amp;

Any way to make the non-breaking space to work properly...or should I say,
they way I want it to?

Thanks.

-Rob T.

Nov 18 '05 #2
try Server.HtmlDeco de("&nbsp;");
--
Regards

John Timney
Microsoft Regional Director
Microsoft MVP
"Rob T" <RT*********@DO NTwalchemSPAM.c om> wrote in message
news:u6******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...
I have a dropdown list that I would like to put in a bunch of &nbsp;'s into it (I'm setting the font to a monospace font so I can show a couple of
columns nice and neat).

In the old asp days, I had no problem doing this, but now if I try to do
something like this...

boxOption.Items .Add(New ListItem("myFir stCol&nbsp;&nbs p;&nbsp;myLastC ol"))

...it converts each & to a &amp;

Any way to make the non-breaking space to work properly...or should I say,
they way I want it to?

Thanks.

-Rob T.

Nov 18 '05 #3

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