Yes, but you are not replacing spaces with the string "nbsp" here, right? That is, try to create a string of empty spaces. Then replace the empty spaces with the "nbsp" and set the value to an HTML control. Unless I don't understand something, you will see literal "nbsp" strings.
>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.
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>>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.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham