Indenting in a select tag

Hey Everyone,

I have a select box defined in my datacapture.cfg, and I would like the options' label to be indenetd sometimes (cause some options are essentially sub-options).
I tried putting spaces, non-breaking-spaces, and other possible tags, but nothing works.
I came across this "optgroup" tag which seemed promising, though that did not work either.
I have the following code:

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"optgroup" is not working, as it makes the whole section under optgroup just not show up.
Is something wrong with this code? Is there another way to approach this?

Thanks,
Ido

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Migrateduser

Optgroup is great but how are you adding spaces? If you were to add it as " ", it should work.

Migrateduser

did not work either.

Migrateduser

Where did you put the ? It needs to go inside the label - also, you need to remember to encode the ampersand, since it's an XML entity

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Also, where did you find this "optgroup" element - I don't see any mention of it in the DTD

Migrateduser

Sorry, I misspoke. You should encode the leading ampersand. So, you're actually using:

&nbsp;

which parses to:

 

This experience is one of the most confusing things... so, to post this on DevNet, I have to parse the ampersand to begin with. Then, to illustrate my point, I have to double parse the ampersand which is, in effect, triple-parsing the   expression.

I need a drink.

Migrateduser

Hey Guys,

Dave, encoding the leading ampersand worked well. Thanks very much... I agree on the drink part too ;-)

robhuffstedtler, optgroup is an html tag which lets you define groups of options in a select box. It seems very useful, but I guess it's not supported. A possible feature request...?

Thanks again for the help,
Ido

Migrateduser

Optgroup is great but it's not in the DTD. Perhaps someone can make a feature request for this? I don't really care too much either way -- I haven't needed to use optgroup in regular HTML stuff, anyway... but I'm a fan, regardless :-)