DropDownList ListItem Text Being Replaced

[jgd123456]

Hi, I have the following code on my page:

<aspropDownList ...>
<asp:ListItem Value=""> &nbps; Test</asp:ListItem>
</aspropDownList>

but &nbps; keeps getting replaced (i understand this is for security reasons). I read once how you could create your own control inherting from the DropDownList which changes the way the DropDownList renders the text property within the ListItem (so that no replaces are made) but i seemed to have misplaced it and would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks

 

[ca8msm]

I'm surprised it works at all as you have a typo in there. It should be &nbsp;


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[jmeckley]

just curious, why do you need the whitespace at all? are you trying to format the dropdown list items. if so use css. CSS isn't my strongest skill but something like this may work

[COLOR=green]/* option 1 */[/color]
select option { align: right; }
[COLOR=green]/* option 2 */[/color]
select.formatted option { align: right; }
[COLOR=green]/* option 3 */[/color]
option.formatted { align: right; }

option 1: applies to all dropdown and listbox controls.
option 2: applies to all options within a dropdownlist or listbox with a class of [tt]formatted[/tt].
option 3: applies to all ListItems with a class of [tt]formatted.[/tt]

by default ListItems don't have a CSSClass property, so you would need to add this in code behind if you wanted to apply the formatting to specific options only.

foreach(ListItem item in myDropDown.Items)
{
   item.Attributes.Add("css", "formatted");
}

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[jgd123456]

Hi, sorry i just chucked the code above together as an example (untested). I found the post that helped now. I had to override the Render method by extending the DropDownList control. The problem i had is that i wished to use the DropDownList to select a category (which has a parentid) so the data becomes hierachical eg:

Cat 1
Sub 1
Sub 2
Sub 2 Sub 1
Sub 3
Cat 2
...

But whenever i did &nbsp; within the text part it was getting replaced. All is resolved now though. Thanks anywayz.