I have a ListBox with a heading that looks like this:
___________Name___________|__________Location__________
I add to the ListBox (maybe) several strings that I have built up from
two pieces of data: a name and a city/town name. I need the resulting
string to display such that the city/town name begins just one space
into the location part of the display. I have a method to padString
which I use to pad out the length of the name plus as many spaces as
required to put the location at the right place once appended to the
name+spaces part of the string.
This approach does not work because the browser ignors multiple spaces
and treats them as one, so I lose my padding. This application is a
conversion from the same app written using HTML and javaScript. In
that version I was successful in establishing the pad because I
appended a number of (non-breaking space) rather than plain
spaces.
Presently, I am padding with underscores to be able to see how this is
working, and that it is working. I can see the padding is working
okay but the font is a variable width font and the result is a
staggered text display, depending on the number of and specific
characters in the name part.
Now, There may be a way for me to add non-breaking spaces rather than
plain spaces as padding. How might I do that? Even so, I will
probably have to set the font in the ListBox to a momospaced font so I
get exact apacing of every character. I know there is a problem
setting a font using css in a GWT app.
Here is the relevant part of my current css for this problem:
.gwt-ListBox-selectList {
white-space: pre;
background: lightgray;
}
The 'pre' doesn't work, either. As best I can tell this is a browser
problem. I am using Firefox version 1.5.0.12.
Suggestions, please?
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