Create a list of multiple column options with ASP

Concept
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First, we need to highlight some concepts to give you some of the elements that make this "miracle" happen. Too easy to divulge the foreshadowing is not a good form for storytelling, so those who do not want to see the end in the first place should walk away.
The first part of this complex is the use of fixed-width fonts. The two standard fixed-width fonts for Internet Explorer and Netscape are Courier new and Lucida Console respectively. Most web designs don't use standard fonts entirely, but they are a necessary condition for this particular technical work, and they look good as shown in the two images above.
To explain further, a fixed-width font is a font, and all characters of this font say that each character occupies the same space. So you might want to take some steps to make sure that one or the other of these fixed-width fonts is already installed on the client that makes up your target audience. If you want to use your browser to see if these fonts are currently installed, IE5 to Tools | Under Internet Options, click the Fonts button on the General tab of the Internet Options window. You will see a region called Plain Text font:
　　
This is the list of all the fixed-width fonts currently installed. For Netscape 4 and later, to edit | Preferences, expand the appearance in Tree-view and select Fonts. There is a drop-down list of fixed Width fonts.
The second part is the ability to apply a particular font to the list of options. In IE4 and above versions, you can request a font in the following ways:
< SELECT name= "Myselect" Style=font-family:lucida Console, Courier New; >
For Netscape, you can use the font tag around the list of options:
< FONT face= "Lucida Console, Courier New" ></font >
The third part is the use of uninterrupted space &nbsp and pipe characters.
In the next section I'll show you an example of a simple, fully coded list of multiple options. The last section will demonstrate a multiple-option list function that uses database calls in the context and will explore some possible parameter selections.
Basic list of multiple column options
Author: Green Apple studios This article hits: 4755
The following HTML example demonstrates the most basic form of a list of multiple columns options:
< HTML >
< head >
< TITLE >simple multi-column Select list</title >
< BODY >
< FORM >