How do i insert a tab within a list box

[Andrew Thomas]

Code

<option value="<%=(rs_processor.Fields.Item("component_description").Value)%><%=(rs_processor.Fields.Item("component_price").Value)%>"><%=(rs_processor.Fields.Item("component_description").Value)%>£<%=(rs_processor.Fields.Item("component_price").Value)%></option>

how do i get a tab space between the description and price

eg

20Gb Hard Disk £15.00

within the list box?

thanks

[Andrew Thomas]

can anyone help me on this, its a bit of a nightmare - not even sure if its possible?

tried & vbtab & and everything else

help

[txbakers]

I'm not sure where you want the tab. In the value section? or the display? If it's the display, you can't include tabs because they don't exist in HTML. The best you can do is &nbsp;

If it's in the value, I still wouldn't use tabs, but some type of delimiter. I generall use the pipe "¦" to delimit more than one db value in the value attribute, then have a function to parse the parts when I need to.

[Andrew Thomas]

It was for the display

so the prices are aligned with one another within the list box.

eg

prod1 £10.00
prod2 £10.00
prod3 £30.00

all within one list box

thanks

[RossWal]

You might have luck adding enough &nbsp chars to padd it out, like:

for i = 1 to maxProductLength - length(thisProduct)
response.write("&nbsp")
next i

I don't know how the browser will render the multiple &nbsp chars, it might strip them out :(. You could try in plain HTML to make it look nice, then write the asp code to create the HTML.