title: Maintaining white space in html select tag
body: <p>I have a list of strings that I would like to display in a HTML select object. The strings look something like :</p>
  
  <p>id - name - description</p>
  
  <p>I would like the fields to align however. In PHP I'm using </p>
  
  <pre><code>sprintf ("%4s%10s%20s", $id, $name, $description);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which works fine. The problem is the multiple spaces is compacted to 1 space in the select list. I tried using the pre and white-space CSS properties of the select box, but it has no effect. Any suggestions?</p>