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My problem comes from HTML dropdown select not able to preserve multiple consecutive whitespaces in its options. Here is a sample testcase and outcome.
The "white-space:pre" class CSS seems to work only for any HTML element except the select element options. Is there any literature or cases identifying such issue?
print "<style>.keepwhitespace { white-space: pre }</style>
<p class='keepwhitespace'>abc def</p>
abc def
<br/>
<br/>select and options with keepwhitespace
<select onchange=\"alert('\''+this.value+'\' '+this.value.length)\" class='keepwhitespace'>
<option class='keepwhitespace'>Any </option>
<option class='keepwhitespace'>abc def </option>
<option class='keepwhitespace'> Any </option>
<option class='keepwhitespace'>abc def </option>
</select>
<br/>select with keepwhitespace
<select onchange=\"alert('\''+this.value+'\' '+this.value.length)\" class='keepwhitespace'>
<option >Any </option>
<option >abc def </option>
<option> Any </option>
<option>abc def </option>
</select>
<br/>options with keepwhitespace
<select onchange=\"alert('\''+this.value+'\' '+this.value.length)\">
<option class='keepwhitespace'>Any </option>
<option class='keepwhitespace'>abc def </option>
<option class='keepwhitespace'> Any </option>
<option class='keepwhitespace'>abc def </option>
</select>";
Outcome looks like this:
preloaded As can be seen in the "p" element tag (and any other that I tried using, worked well formatting text with the "whitespace" CSS style. Yet the select does not.
