Text flow in table columns

[Jo]

I'm using FrontPage 2003 on a PC. Is there a way to make text automatically
flow into 2 or more columns in a table, so that what doesn't fit into Column
#1 will automatically overflow into Column #2, and so on? I think many years
ago, in some word processors (possibly Word), they used to call this
"newspaper columns." You would set the length of the table and the text would
flow down to that point and then start at the top of the next column.

I'd like to be able to do this ideally by using FP include-page text (web
component that brings in another page of text), or even just by
copy-and-paste would be an improvement. I have frequent changes to the text
in question and I'm trying to minimise the detailed updating that needs to be
done on various pages. One of the pages uses a 3-column table, but without an
automatic text flow, it means I have to manually adjust the length of the
columns each time I add text to the table.

I'm using regular tables for layout, but if this can be done in CSS or even
layout tables (which I'm not very familiar with, having only just upgraded to
2003), I'm willing to check it out. Thanks for any help with this!

Jo

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

No, it will not flow into the next column.
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| I'm using FrontPage 2003 on a PC. Is there a way to make text
automatically
| flow into 2 or more columns in a table, so that what doesn't fit into
Column
| #1 will automatically overflow into Column #2, and so on? I think many
years
| ago, in some word processors (possibly Word), they used to call this
| "newspaper columns." You would set the length of the table and the text
would
| flow down to that point and then start at the top of the next column.
|
| I'd like to be able to do this ideally by using FP include-page text (web
| component that brings in another page of text), or even just by
| copy-and-paste would be an improvement. I have frequent changes to the
text
| in question and I'm trying to minimise the detailed updating that needs to
be
| done on various pages. One of the pages uses a 3-column table, but without
an
| automatic text flow, it means I have to manually adjust the length of the
| columns each time I add text to the table.
|
| I'm using regular tables for layout, but if this can be done in CSS or
even
| layout tables (which I'm not very familiar with, having only just upgraded
to
| 2003), I'm willing to check it out. Thanks for any help with this!
|
| Jo

 

[Jo]

No, it will not flow into the next column.

Okay, thanks for clarifying that. But what about CSS? I'm seeing some
references online to some way to get it to simulate table columns and flow
from one column to the next, but so far I haven't found any real code to work
from. Any suggestions?

Jo

 

[Ronx]

You can use CSS to simulate columns, but it cannot cause text to
dynamically flow from one column to another.
Bear in mind that a web page has no length, whereas print media, where
the column flow feature exists, does have fixed sizes for the
"canvas". If you set a height for a column, table etc., the browser
is just as likely to ignore it than to obey it - and heights in web
pages (except for images) are minimums where they are used, not
absolute values.

If the page is simple, you could use Word to construct and edit the
page, however you may then suffer from the Office bloat that using
Word often causes.

 

[Jo]

Okay, thanks Ron. I guess I'm ahead of my time. ;-)

Jo