Hi Jude1,
I am sorry to tell you, what you are trying to do is essentially
impossible in a web browser.
Many people have tried to emulate newspaper style multi-column layouts
on the web, but no HTML tag or element currently exists that can do
it.
I have seen complex designs, created with Javascript or server-side
scripting that get close, but they are still generally not fool-proof
and tend to fail often.
The best implementation I have seen is at the International Herald
Tribune website:
http://www.iht.com/articles/107470.html
But it's complicated, and not the sort of thing you can simply put
together in Frontpage I am afraid. It requires backend programming.
For what it's worth the spec for Cascading Style Sheets v3 (CSS3)
supports this layout style:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/
But it will be a while before you see the majority of browsers
supporting CSS3, let alone MS Frontpage.
For a while Netscape supported a tag to do multi-column layouts, but
that is no longer the case. Here is a page detailing that, but it's
out of date now: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/cols.html
Here are some articles and so forth about the issue:
http://css.nu/examples/css-columns.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1998May/0059.html (as far
back as '98!)
I wish I could help more, but as someone who has been coding HTML for
more than 7 years, I can safely say that flow on columns like you want
are the realm of fantasy for web designers at present.
Sorry I couldn't provide a positive answer to your question - I don't
like to provide "it can't be done" answers, hence my posting this as a
comment.
Good luck,
Sycophant-ga |