How To Make Two Columns In A Post Without Doing Table

  • italysound

    (@italysound)


    12 years ago

    The couple questions I have has to do with an existing table on a website I am working on for a friend. It might make it easier to understand the questions by first viewing the table. The website is:

    https://onlyonetruegod.org/draft-home-page-2/, scroll about 6 paragraphs down and you will see the table under the heading THE EXCHANGE. That is how we want the text to look – in 2 columns, but with no visible lines. Plus, I want to be able to apply the same font and font size to the text to match the rest of the site font.

    To get the look my friend wanted, I created this basic, two-column table in html. However, it shows the lines/borders, which is not wanted. Also, they wanted a larger font on the site so when I changed to a larger font sitewide, the table automatically converted to very small font that I cannot figure out how to change.

    There might be a way to a) get rid of the borders, and b) make the font larger, however I am not versed enough in html to do so. If there is an easy way to code the existing table, to do those two things, it would solve my problem and I am open to trying it.

    If not, from all the searching I have been doing, it seems the next best thing would be to create two columns – sort of like a newspaper column mode, to get the same thing but I was not able to find instructions on how to do this other than a recommendation for using tinyMCE. Does anyone know if using this plugin for getting two columns works good or not?

    Or – if there is any code I can use that would allow me to have text to the left and then indented text immediately to the right of it.

    I have gone to w3schools and did a search, but I cannot seem to come up with the right keywords for it to bring me the solution I need.

    This table isn’t too big, so I feel I would be able to handle coding it in some way, if necessary.

    Any help with one or all of the above methods would be greatly appreciated! (I am open to a table plugin, but for just one table, I think I would do that as a last resort. Plus, reading through some of the reviews for some of the table plugins, there still seemed to be issues of different sorts to deal with.)

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    Don’t use table markup for layout purposes. You would be better off using <div></div> and/or <blockquote></blockquote> markup and some CSS. It is beyond the scope of these forums to deal with general CSS issues but you could try a dedicated CSS resource such as https://www.css-discuss.org/ instead.

    Thread Starter italysound

    (@italysound)

    Thanks for your response and the resource.

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