Right align text in a DropDownList

J

Joel

I have data from a table that must be strings, not numbers, but I would like
to display it in a DropDownList WebControl right aligned. I tried using the
DataTextFormatString but with no luck. Any ideas?

TIA

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P

Philip Q [MVP]

Sadly, you do not have much control over the display of text in a
DropDownList in ASP.NET, HTML or CSS.
One method that you could try would be to pad the strings with preceding
spaces to make it appear as if they were right-aligned.
 
J

Jens Ansorg

Joel said:
I have data from a table that must be strings, not numbers, but I would like
to display it in a DropDownList WebControl right aligned. I tried using the
DataTextFormatString but with no luck. Any ideas?
Click to expand...

its one of the many shortcomings of internet explorer

try this little sample in IE and then in Mozilla/Firefox and then go and
complain to Balmer/Gates ;)


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>DD text align test</title>
</head>

<body>

<select style="text-align:right;">
<option style="text-align:right;">asdds</option>
<option style="text-align:right;">ds asdfd as </option>
<option style="text-align:right;">tt tet</option>
</select>

</body>
</html>
 

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