Dropdownlist
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Hi I want to have the text for the items in my dropdownlist to spaced out using tabs because the field values are of differing lengths. Like this; HEADING1 HEADING2 HEADING3 data data data data data data data data data All lined up correctly but HTML doesnt understand "\t" and using "Ampersand nbsp semicolon" doesn't seem to work and lots of spaces are just taken as 1 Anybody done this before? There must be a way to do it? :doh: Thanks Colin
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Hi I want to have the text for the items in my dropdownlist to spaced out using tabs because the field values are of differing lengths. Like this; HEADING1 HEADING2 HEADING3 data data data data data data data data data All lined up correctly but HTML doesnt understand "\t" and using "Ampersand nbsp semicolon" doesn't seem to work and lots of spaces are just taken as 1 Anybody done this before? There must be a way to do it? :doh: Thanks Colin
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Hi Colin, You might try the
 
colin mcadam wrote:
There must be a way to do it?
Are you so sure about this? ;P
wont work as the text is of varying length I hope there is a way to do it!
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wont work as the text is of varying length I hope there is a way to do it!
+ You might try to use that value with the space, by this I mean it can look something like:
"   "
+ Another option comes to mind is to use the custom dropdownlist that supports displaying the items in the datagrid format. AFAIK, there are a couple of articles posted on CP, you might want to look for them.