Column alignment with apex_item.text

I am trying to create a tabular form with the following statement
select apex_item.text(10,empno) empno,
apex_item.text(20,ename) ename,
apex_item.text(30,sal,15,15) sal,
apex_item.text(40,comm) comm
from emp
The statement above works fine, however, if I try to align the sal column by adding style for the p_attribute parameter such as
apex_item.text(30,sal,15,15,style="text-align:right;") sal
I get the following
Query cannot be parsed within the Builder. If you believe your query is syntactically correct, check the ''generic columns'' checkbox below the region source to proceed without parsing. ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis
In addition to the column alignment I would like to format the column like $999,999.99 and provide a column total at the bottom, is this possible with apex_item.text?
Any thoughts would be most appreciated
Regards,
Mark

Hi,
You could try using TO_CHAR(sal,'$999,999.99') but I'm not sure what that may do to the submit process - I tend to leave the number unformatted and only use formats for reports.
If you are able to add in formatting, it may actually make it a lot harder to provide totals. A total could be done by looping through the input items that have a name attribute of "f30" (as you've used 30 for the index number of that item) - using parseInt() or parseFloat() javascript functions would convert the strings into numbers, but the commas and currency symbols would stop this working.
Andy

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