The source code shows values as & + amp + ; + nbsp + ; + &. (I added those plus signs here otherwise UT does not show the entities). That is, .NET inserts the & amp to show the value as literal and, obviously, this is not what I want.
>Dimitry I tested on plain HTML Code so if u saying that in the .net combo didn't work, did you try to do a right click view source on the hmlpage that was generated and see what html .net had generate?
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>>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.
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>>>Testing the HTML looks like it works fine
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>>>this is the html code:
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>>><select name="test"><option selected value="1">test spaces 10 spaces</option><option value="2">test spaces 10 NBSP</option></select>
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>>>the 2nd option instead of spaces has 10 & nbsp; and it shows ok on the html dropdown list.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>>>For example, if I do
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>>>>>>string mystreen = "&"+ "nbsp" + ";" ;
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>>>>>>The browser will show this string literally. But this is NOT what I want.
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>>>>>>Thank you for any suggestions.
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