<MULTICOL> TAG

The multicol tag is an outdated tag not even supported in Netscape 7. It allows you to take standard text like this and....

Turn it into columns like you find in newspapers like here (sorry if viewing with almost any up to date browser you won't see the effect of this but we have a solution below so keep reading) with ease enhancing the layout of your page.
You can include images like here and other structures like tables.

It is a useful tag and its not to difficult to use either, but is being replaced by CSS.

Right lets get down to the basics

we used the following HTML

<multicol cols="3" gutter="20">
our text went here
</multicol>

The cols attribute sets the no of columns. The gutter attribute is nonessential (a default value will be used) but you can use it to set the spacing between each column in pixels. In addition you can set the width attribute to control the actual width of each column in pixels

Sadly other browsers as yet do not support it but you can replicate the effect easily....

ponder this example and see if you can work out how we did it
the answer is at the bottom

BACK TO BROWSER SPECIFIC MAIN

The Answer was to use a 3 X 1 table with border set at 0 and cellspacing and cellpadding to replicate the gutter effect