Listbox padding ---adding spaces

[MaRkHaSBEEnMade]

Hi there

I currently have a listbox that displays provinces,regions and suburbs.I want to pad the items logically with spaces,but the spaces are being igonred...
eg

Province1
Regions1
region2
Province2
Region3
Suburb1
Suburb2



my code is as follows--I tried to do the following that was suggested somewhere...but still it ignores the spaces....
System.IO.StringWriter writer= new System.IO.StringWriter();
ListItem li2 = new ListItem();
li2.Value = "1,"+regionArray[p, 2];
Server.HtmlDecode(" ", writer);
String DecodedString = writer.ToString();

practiceAreas.Items.Add(DecodedString);---practiceareas is my listbox

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks

[MaRkHaSBEEnMade]

EDIT--I had to put the ----- in this post to illustrate---it was ignored here to!

Hi there

I currently have a listbox that displays provinces,regions and suburbs.I want to pad the items logically with spaces,but the spaces are being igonred...
eg

Province1
-----------Regions1
-----------region2
Province2
-----------Region3
------------------------Suburb1
------------------------Suburb2



my code is as follows--I tried to do the following that was suggested somewhere...but still it ignores the spaces....
System.IO.StringWriter writer= new System.IO.StringWriter();
ListItem li2 = new ListItem();
li2.Value = "1,"+regionArray[p, 2];
Server.HtmlDecode(" ", writer);
String DecodedString = writer.ToString();

practiceAreas.Items.Add(DecodedString);---practiceareas is my listbox

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks