- From: David J Woolley <djw@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:40:07 +0100
- To: www-amaya@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
> Theoretically the following markup should result in a column:
>
> .columnleft {
> width: 40%;
> height: 300px
> }
> .columnright {
> margin-top: -300px;
> margin-left: 50%;
> width: 40%;
> vertical-align: text-top
> }
>
> This can then be appleid to block elements such as DIV or P.
I wouldn't consider the effect you are trying to achieve to be true
columns, which to me only make sense on paged media and allow the
browser to select the column break position. I would say the effect
you are trying to achieve here should be done with two absolutely
positioned divisions, possibly within a relatively positioned one.
>
> However, Netscape totally ignores this.
> IE 4 ignores DIV and when P is used, you can see the right column box is
In my experience IE 4 understands divisions a lot better than NS 4.
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