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Implementing multi-columns the easy way

You can create web pages that looks like multi-column news paper articles with very little work. Unfortunately, this tag is not yet supported in Explorer 3.x and lower, so make sure that most of your users use Navigator 3.x or higher before applying this new tag to your pages.

For example, let's say you want to divide your text paragraphs into two columns with a 15 pixel space between them:

  <MULTICOL COLS=2 GUTTER=15 WIDTH=80%>

  ...your text goes here...

  </MULTICOL>

You can turn a web page that looks like:

into something that looks like:

just by wrapping your text with MULTICOL tags as demonstrated above.