Posted by Andy Dingley on 05/03/07 10:26

On 3 May, 08:47, James Hutton <james.hut...@dsl.NOSPAM.pipex.com>
wrote:
> I've got a large number of names (373 in fact) currently in .txt ready
> to cut and paste into a page. Is there any way to place these into two
> or three columns which flow automatically,

No, HTML rendering doesn't grok newspaper columns.

This is deliberate though, so why fight it? Multiple narrow columns
(newspaper columns) are a feature of broadsheet newspaper printing,
where the best way to arrange scrolling is two-dimensionally. On the
web though, it's easy to scroll a long distance in one dimension, hard
to scroll sideways. So the "web way" of listing your long list is just
to keep it as a _single_ long list, not to break it into columns.

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