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JacksonAO · #1 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008

Is there a simple way to just have a section of free flowing, wraping text columns within a paragraph? Or do you have to create tables?

Tess · #2 (**permalink**) 04-11-2008

Hmmm, this one's a bit vague...not sure what you mean by 'wrapping text columns' - can you clarify?

Do you mean two columns of text within a given space, as opposed to one? (Maybe it's the word 'paragraph' throwing us off)

Let me know - thanks Sarah!

kathiemt · #3 (**permalink**) 04-11-2008

Tables - I don't know of any other way to do it. You can insert tables inside of tables.

JacksonAO · #4 (**permalink**) 04-11-2008

you know how in ms word, you can just highlight a section of text and select the number of columns you want, that's what I mean.

but I think from what I've gathered so far the only way to do that is to set up tables.
if anyone wouldn't mind offering some advice on that, I would be forever greatful

))))

kathiemt · #5 (**permalink**) 04-11-2008

Originally Posted by JacksonAO

you know how in ms word, you can just highlight a section of text and select the number of columns you want, that's what I mean.

but I think from what I've gathered so far the only way to do that is to set up tables.
if anyone wouldn't mind offering some advice on that, I would be forever greatful

))))

html doesn't work the same as Word. I think you'll find if you try to do it in Word and save it has html it will become one long column. Tables are the only way I know of to create something that looks like it is in columns.

virtual writing · #6 (**permalink**) 04-11-2008

Sarah - I'll bet Hamid will be getting to tables soon in the Saturday HTML classes here on the forums. It's easy, tho probably not something to be taught in a "Quick Reply."

Codehead · #7 (**permalink**) 04-11-2008

Sarah,

You can use tables but tables are designed to display table like forms of data and they are not a tool for making layouts.
The other problem with tables is that they can lead to a messy code that will be hard to maintain later.
Yet one more problem with tables is that you will end up with more than necessary code, so your pages will be bigger in size.

One nice way to achieve multi column text is using lists:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>2 Column</title>
	
   <style type="text/css">
		ul.two-column {
			width:500px;
			list-style-type:none;
		}
		ul.two-column li {
			float:left;
			width:230px;
			padding:0 20px 0 0;
		}
	</style>
   
</head>

<body>

   <ul class="two-column">
      <li>
      	I'm the left column!
      </li>
      <li>
      	I'm the right column!
      </li>
   </ul>

</body>
</html>

I hope this helps

Codehead · #8 (**permalink**) 04-11-2008

Quote:

I'll bet Hamid will be getting to tables soon in the Saturday HTML classes

We already talked about tables on session 3, check in the archives soon

JacksonAO · #9 (**permalink**) 04-15-2008

codehead.... you're great. that was just what I needed. I have more questions for another forum topic but I'm almost done with the new and improved site and I'll soon be able to share.

JacksonAO · #10 (**permalink**) 04-15-2008

http://www.jacksonao.com/services.html
here are the columns I created....
It is published but my links aren't functioning, I think because the frontpage extentions are still active on my server, i have to ask them to turn them off tomorrow since I'm not using front page now. My various sub-sites will come up only if I type in the URL with HTML at the end, and the links will only go to ie: www.jacksonao.com/services, instead of www.jacksonao.com/services.html