Dimitry did you saw the hml that got generated to see if the spaces appears in the html?

>>Dimitry you mean select padr(alltrim(ID_FIELD),10,' ') + DESC_FIELD as MYNEWFLD
>>and then on the drop down list you set DataTextField as the mynewfld.
>>Everything should work fine.
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>It should but it does not. That is, the field MYNEWFLD does appear in the dropdown list with both the ID_FIELD and the DESC_FIELD. But the first character of the DESC_FIELD appears all over the place. This is because DLL ignores the spaces I use to pad the field ID_FIELD. And I use mono spaced font (Courier New), so I am baffled to what is going on there.