"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <stcheng@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:Owg3xtCPGHA.1388@TK2MSFTNGXA03.phx.gbl...
> Hi Avijit,
>
> Welcome to the ASP.NET newsgroup.
>
> As for the DropDownList control, it actually render as html <select>
> element in client browser and each of the Items will be rendered as html
> <option> sub element. If we want to make the data text displayed with some
> indents, we need to put some html space --- &nbsp;(or &#160;) --- in
> front
> of the text. For example:
>
> <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList3" runat="server" >
> <asp:ListItem >&#160;&#160;Item1</asp:ListItem>
> <asp:ListItem>&#160;&#160;Item2</asp:ListItem>
> <asp:ListItem>&#160;&#160;Item3</asp:ListItem>
> <asp:ListItem>&#160;&#160;Item4</asp:ListItem>
>
> </asp:DropDownList>
>
> If you're using Databinding to populate the dropdownlist, we need to make
> sure the datasource's Text property has already contains the html space
> element in it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven Cheng
> Microsoft Online Support
>
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