adding spaces to the select item label

[sri]

Hi

  I have a selectOneListBox with several entries. I need to organize them by indenting. I have added spaces, but obviously the spaces are ignored. I have added " " but that was converted to " " when rendered, so that didn't work either. Is there any way to ESCAPE the html for selectOneListBox like the escape attribure for an outputLabel.

 I am trying to achieve some thing like below in the list box, I can do this in a static html.


Value Header 1
    Value One1
    Value Two1
Value Header 2
    Value One2
    Value Two2
    Value SubHeader1
        SubValue One
        SubValue Two
.....

The follwoing works fine (static html)
                        <select name="templates" id="templates">
                            <option value='All'>All</option>
                            <option value=''>Public</option>
                            <option value='DonationRequest'>&nbsp;&nbsp;Class of 1999</option>
                            <option value='SchoolFestival'>&nbsp;&nbsp;Students of Mrs. XYZ</option>
                            <option value='DeathNotification'>&nbsp;&nbsp;Participants of ABC Sport Event</option>
                            <option value=''>Other Queries</option>
                            <option value=''>&nbsp;&nbsp;BADAMS (My Queries)</option>
                            <option value='DonationRequest'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Class of 1999</option>
                            <option value='SchoolFestival'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Students of Mrs. XYZ</option>
                            <option value='DeathNotification'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Participants of ABC Sport Event</option>
                            <option value=''>&nbsp;&nbsp;HPOTTER</option>
                            <option value='DonationRequest'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Class of 1999</option>
                            <option value='SchoolFestival'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Students of Mrs. XYZ</option>
                            <option value='DeathNotification'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Participants of ABC Sport Event</option>
                            <option value=''>&nbsp;&nbsp;JSMITH</option>
                            <option value='DonationRequest'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Class of 1999</option>
                            <option value='SchoolFestival'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Students of Mrs. XYZ</option>
                            <option value='DeathNotification'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Participants of ABC Sport Event</option>
                        </select>

TIA
Srikanth