Re: How to Make Newspaper Columns

From: catwoman <catwoman(at)enter.net>
>    I was wondering how to make newspaper columns on a web page? What
would
>be the tags and how could I do it in FrontPage?
>Thanks!!!!
>Wendy

Use tables. Each column would be marked up in td tags. Say you want 3
columns across your page, you could use markup similar to this:

<TABLE border="0" width="100%">
<TR>
<TD align="left" valign="top" width="33%">Text for first column goes
here</TD>
<TD align="left" valign="top" width="34%">Text for second column goes
here</TD>
<TD align="left" valign="top" width="33%">Text for third column goes
here</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

You could also add the attributes of cellspacing and cellpadding into
your table element, to specify white spacing and padding that will be
around the *columned text* (table data cells). Example:

<TABLE width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">

You could also opt to markup your table's width using fixed pixels
instead of percentages.

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Cindy K. Stanley

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