Testing the HTML looks like it works fine

this is the html code:

<select name="test"><option selected value="1">test spaces          10 spaces</option><option value="2">test spaces          10 NBSP</option></select>

the 2nd option instead of spaces has 10 & nbsp; and it shows ok on the html dropdown list.

>Alexandre,
>But it does not work exactly as you are saying. The reason I posted this question was I was trying your suggestion on the dropdownlist (last Friday). But the dropdownlist shows values of "nbsp" and not the space as we exact. That is when I try .Replace(" ","nbsp;") or .Replace(" "," ") the literal value is set in the dropdownlist.
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>>Dimitry all depends on where you are using that, i.e. if you use that on a textbox.text then you will see the value and not the space, while if you use it on a dropdownlist item you will see the space and not the string, so as you can see all depends where you are using it.
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>>>I need to figure out how to set a value of the HTML entity NBSP ( Ampersand + NBSP + Semicolon) into a string so that the browser will interpret it as an HTML special character and not a literal character.
>>>
>>>For example, if I do
>>>
>>>

>>>string mystreen = "&"+ "nbsp" + ";" ;
>>>

>>>
>>>The browser will show this string literally. But this is NOT what I want.
>>>
>>>Thank you for any suggestions.