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  R03

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  How do you indent items in a listbox?

  Sep 19, 2003 05:14 AM|LINK

  Lets say I have the following code and there is a specific item that I would like to indent in the list box. How would I go about doing this without using any item templates? I know in classic asp, you can use " ", but this doesn't seem to work.

  for(int q=0; q<4; q++)
  {
       if(q==2)
       {
                  //indent this item
  	ListBox1.Items.Add("item"+q);
       }
        else
  	ListBox1.Items.Add("item"+q);
  				
  
       }

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  Re: How do you indent items in a listbox?

  Sep 19, 2003 08:51 AM|LINK

  I can't see why you can't use   in this case. have you tried ordinary spaces too?
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  Re: How do you indent items in a listbox?

  Sep 19, 2003 02:43 PM|LINK

  Using code behind, there is no way that I can get this to work. I tried spaces, they are automatically trimmed when added to the list box.   is not recognized using code behind, if i put it in quotes the the result in the listbox would be " Itemx"; Any other suggestions?
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  Re: How do you indent items in a listbox?

  Sep 19, 2003 10:26 PM|LINK

  are you sure you're not forgetting the final semi-colon at the end of   as per earlier reply, I can't see why it shouldn't work.... cheers Phil
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  Re: How do you indent items in a listbox?

  Sep 20, 2003 08:56 PM|LINK

  Using C# code-behind it does not seem to work. Could anyone post an example, like the one I used above, showing how this could be done. That would help me alot.
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  Re: How do you indent items in a listbox?

  Sep 20, 2003 09:42 PM|LINK

  ok... you're quite right - it doesn't work! But (if I've got my C right - sorry, I'm a VB man myself.....) try this for the relevant line: ListBox1.Items.Add(Server.HTMLDecode(" ")+"item"+q); it's a little ugly, but it works.... NB note the HTML this generates:  Two ie, a leading space gets added to the value as well, which you may or may not need to be aware of... cheers Phil
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  Re: How do you indent items in a listbox?

  Sep 21, 2003 05:44 AM|LINK

  thanks Phil. works great. I'm sure the Server.HtmlDecode method will come in handy again in the future. cheers. Rob