Ok I bet is a HTML prb so what will need to do on that case is convert the scaces to  
You can do it on your select or you can do it in code I would say in code.
so in your code you will have something like this

For Each row in dsData.tables(0).Rows
    dropdownlist.items.Add(New ListItem(cstr(cstr(row("id")).Trim().PadRight(10,cchar(" ")).Replace(" ", " ") & row("description")), cstr(row("id"))))
Next row

something along this lines.


>>Dimitry did you saw the hml that got generated to see if the spaces appears in the html?
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>Alexandre,
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>Yes, the HTML source does show the spaces. I wish there was a way to replace the spaces with NBSP. So, why do you think DDL ignores my spaces?