Dropdown menu format

[Suchy]

<select name="id">
   <?php foreach($results as $x) { ?>
          <option value="<?= $x['id'] ?>">
	       <? printf ("%.40s", $x['name']) // limit name to 40 letters ?>   ***    id: 
	      <?= $x['id'] ?>    ***    added: 
	      <?  printf ("%.16s", $x['date']) ?>					 
         </option>
   <?php } ?>
</select>

 

here is how it looks:

 

 

Is it possible to line up the results so the dropdown will look like this:

 

 

???

[AndyB]

http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.str-pad.php

 

Probably the function you need to use on the name before concatenating it into the option string