Honor Whitespace padding to display columns in fixed width <select>
- by Laramie
I am trying to create the effect of columns in a dropdown by padding text with whitespace as in this example:
<select style="font-family: courier;">
<option value="1">[Aux1+1] [*] [Aux1+1] [@Tn=PP] </option>
<option value="2">[Main] [*] [Main Apples Oranges] [@Fu=$p] </option>
<option value="3">[Main] [*] [Next NP] [@Fu=n] </option>
<option value="4">[Main] [Dr] [Main] [@Ty=$p] </option>
</select>
According to this blog, it's possible.
The problem is the whitespace is contracted so that the columsn don't line up. SAme results in FF, IE6 and Chrome.
What am I missing?
