You'd need to style the option to use a fixed-width font.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:03 PM, ColdFusion Developer
<cfdev2...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Tried that as well. Does not line up.
>
> Ex:
>
> <option value="1">3M | XYZ Corporation</option>
> <option value="1">ABCDY | AB Corporation of Delaware</option>
>
> The first one is 2 characters and 5 spaces
> The second one if 5 characters and 2 spaces
>
> Both equal 7 spaces :-(
>
> I am wondering if the is a CSS way to do it.
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:37 PM, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) <
> sd1...@att.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Search through the data to get the largest length for the item in the
> > first column.
> >
> > Then when you are doing your loop, do <cfset Variables.myTempFirstCol =
> > FirstColValue & repeatString(" ", Variables.lenMax -
> > len(FirstColValue) />
> >
> > Then output #Variables.myTempFirstCol#|#Variables.mySecondCol#
> >
> > Since the first column will now be a fixed length everything should line
> > up.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ColdFusion Developer [mailto:cfdev2...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:29 PM
> > To: cf-talk
> > Subject: Two Column Select Box?
> >
> >
> > Anyone develop a selectbox that shows two columns of data but only one
> > value?
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > <option value="1">XYZ | XYZ Corporation</option>
> > <option value="1">ABCD | AB Corporation of Delaware</option>
> >
> >
> > Goal is to still have the two columns aligned as well.
> >
> > TIA!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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