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I am using price sets for event registrations. I am setting up an event with 8 price fields some of which contain 15 options.The registration form will look a trifle daunting unless I display more than one price option per line.  However, if a price field is set up to display 3 or more options per line the layout is a little confusing as the options are not obviously in columns. The layout looks approximately like:

Thursday morning session selection *   _O Not Applicable  _O 1  _O 2  _O 3  _O 4

This means that people could select the wrong option as, for example, the radio button for '2' is approximately equidistant between the labels '1' and' 2'.  I have tried adding trailing spaces when I enter the option labels to increase the distance between the end of one label and the radio button for the next, but CiviCRM ignores these.

Suggestions I have for improving the layout include

• having all but the first radio button on each line preceded by, say, 5 spaces
• having the options presented in a table

I am not very experienced at this but to me both suggestions seem to have problems.
Re suggestion 1 - I think getting more than one space to appear conisistently is not easy.
Re suggestion 2 -  For each price field the code would need to calculate the number of rows for the table using the number of options per line and the total number of price options and also calculate the width of each column using the number of options per line and the total available width.  This sounds rather complicated.

I suppose another alternative to help achieve suggestion 2 might be to have the Price field set up altered so that  'Options per line' was replaced by, say:
'Table size for displaying options  columns???   Rows??? '.

I was wondering if anyone else finds the layout poor when displaying more than one price option per line?

Also, if someone with more technical expertise than me could comment on the feasibility of my suggestions for a solution I would really appreciate it. 

I would be paying a developer to do the work, but would just like to know if anything I have suggested would work.


Thanks in advance.   JoAnne