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Subject: Flowing text from column to column in Frontpage
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: jude1-ga
List Price: $50.00
Posted: 21 Aug 2003 19:08 PDT
Expires: 20 Sep 2003 19:08 PDT
Question ID: 247497
I know there's a function in QuarkXPress to link columns to that text
will flow from one to another without awkward misaligned column
bottoms. (Does that make sense?) In other words, I have 3 columns in
Frontpage, but it's one story. Right now I have the story manually
broken in three to fit the three columns, but as a result, the endings
of the columns are quite uneven. How can I EASILY(!) fix this in
Frontpage? (The page in question if you want to see what I mean is:
http://mammasmilk-com.temp-url.com/benefits.htm )
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Subject: Re: Flowing text from column to column in Frontpage
From: sycophant-ga on 24 Aug 2003 05:19 PDT
 
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out of date now: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/cols.html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
Subject: Re: Flowing text from column to column in Frontpage
From: jude1-ga on 26 Aug 2003 17:29 PDT
 
Sycophant,
Thank you so much. I appreciate the comment. For a while, I thought no
one knew how -- that's why I raised the price. Thanks for not taking
advantage! I wish I could give you five stars. :) -Jude

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