Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 03/07/06 00:06

Jose wrote:

>> is there a way to make columns line up within a select box(other than
>> filling in a bunch of "& nbsp;" characters?
>>
>> ex.
>> Abc Corp Detroit, MI
>> General Motors Corp Lansing, MI
>> acme Chicago, IL
>>
>> HTML displays this as:
>>
>> Abc Corp Detroit, MI
>> General Motors Corp Lansing, MI
>> acme Chicago, IL
>
> This looks like a good candidate for a table. It wouldn't even be
> "abusing" tables, as the data does seem to be tabular in nature.

S/He did say "within a select box". There is no way that I know to do
that, and even the   filling will not work for proportional fonts.

How about:

Abc Corp — Detroit, MI
General Motors Corp — Lansing, MI
acme — Chicago, IL

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