Re: Multi column layout question.

> I am not testing or writing Arena/HTML3, but a column element seems simple
> to implement, and would provide many options in formatting a page. 

There is your mistake.  HTML is explicitly not about formatting pages.  It
is about describing the structure of a document to a computer.  Other
formats (perhaps used in conjunction with HTML) must describe its
formatting.  This is the point behind style sheets.  They are external
documents that describe the desired format of a document.

> Options
> that I don't see available in:
> http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html3/Contents.html

Hopefully you will never see formatting options in HTML.  HTML 3.0 provides
a mechanism for specifying external style sheets.  That is where you
should put your columns.  Not in HTML.

 Paul Prescod

Received on Monday, 26 June 1995 19:45:14 UTC