Bonnie,
I agree with you, about subclassing base controls. I always to that in my VFP app. It is on my list of things to learn (and it is getting longer <g>) about .NET.
Thank you for your input.
>Dmitry,
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>I don't do Web Forms hardly at all (so I can't comment on the problem you're having with the nbsp unless I play around with it a bit myself) ... but what Alexandre is suggesting is not a "complicated route" ... in fact, you should always sub-class the base controls and use your sub-classes on your forms instead of the .NET base classes.
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>Just my 2 cents...
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>~~Bonnie
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