title: How to make a DropDownList control display some items in bold ASP.NET
body: <p>I'm working with a custom DropDownList control in ASP.Net and there's been a request to display certain items in the list with a <strong>bold</strong> typeface (NOTE - the control inherits from CompositeDataBoundControl so it can be data bound... not DropDownListBox).  The control is bound to a table and there's a column in the table named IsUsed - if this is set to true, the corresponding item in the list should be rendered bold.  (It should be noted here that this will only ever be viewed in FireFox.)</p>
  
  <p>My experience is all in the middle \ backend tiers so the presentation layer is very new to me - can someone point me in the right direction?  My initial thought was that somewhere in the custom control I would have access to all the rows that are returned from the data source which I could cycle through etc but I'm not sure if that's possible...  There's also RenderContents which I can override... looks interesting!</p>