Shuttle Item Properties in Apex 3.0

Hi,
Hoping someone can assist with the new Shuttle item in Apex 3.0.
Basically, can someone please let me know how I can perform the following:
a) change the width of the shuttle as when I make a change to the width property, it doesn't seem to make any difference?
b) Am I still able to place headings on each of the shuttle cells like I could when using Carl's example?
c) Based on Carl's original Shuttle implementation, is there any undocumented information relating to the new Shuttle item?
Thanks.
Tony.

Hi Tony,
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a) under Elements>HTML Form Element Attributes, use style="width:200px" to set the width for the item<p>
b) I have not found a way to do that, although others may have<p>
c) Check out the Apex 3.0 documentation for the shuttle item--you basically treat it like a multi-select list, with the source of the item returning a colon-delimited string of values.

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While analyzing the issue on two versions: 3.1.2 & 3.0.x ,I noticed few things:
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