ASP.net dropdownlist trims extra spaces while displaying automatically

Question

Following is my code.

protected void Button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var newLsit = new List<string>();
        newLsit.Add("1 1");
        newLsit.Add("1  1");
        newLsit.Add("1   1");
        this.DropDownList1.DataSource = newLsit;
        this.DropDownList1.DataBind();

    }

When dropdown list displays the values all the values are coming as "1 1" "1 1" "1 1"

How to display extra spaces as well and avoid this trimming?

Jonas T · Answer 1 · 2012-05-08T05:23:50.193

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Use   instead of " ". Your code should look like this.

protected void Button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var newLsit = new List<string>();
        newLsit.Add("1&nbsp;1");
        newLsit.Add("1&nbsp;&nbsp;1");
        newLsit.Add("1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1");
        this.DropDownList1.DataSource = newLsit;
        this.DropDownList1.DataBind();

    }

edited May 08 '12 at 05:23

answered May 08 '12 at 05:04

Jonas T

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Thank you, i just wrote a smaple however my original code contains an entity list. So do i need to write some generic code to encrypt the List of entities before rendering – Chaitany Ram May 08 '12 at 05:20
Can you please give more details? – Jonas T May 08 '12 at 05:30
I am able to see characters in the lsit with your code – Chaitany Ram May 08 '12 at 05:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '12 at 05:24

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you can try this

int num=1;
        newLsit.add("1"+String.format("%"+num+"s","1"));
        num=2;
        newLsit.add("1"+String.format("%"+num+"s","1"));
        num=3;
        newLsit.add("1"+String.format("%"+num+"s","1"));

answered May 08 '12 at 05:24

Abrial

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ASP.net dropdownlist trims extra spaces while displaying automatically

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