You can create the effect of newspaper-type columns by making your whole page into a table. For two columns of text, use the following code as a basis:

<TABLE WIDTH=100%>
<TR><TD WIDTH=50%>
Left hand column text in here.
<TD WIDTH=50%>
Right hand column text in here.
</TABLE>


Remember, the left hand column will not wrap into the right hand column as with normal word processors; you must specify the columns' text separately.

A new tag, <MULTICOL>, has been developed to make the above procedure easier. It is currently only supported by Netscape 3. The code to produce the above would be:

<MULTICOL COLS=2 WIDTH=100%>Left hand and right hand column text in here.</MULTICOL>

An alternative method is to use the command <PRE>. This uses a fixed-width font to display the text, and also shows all space-characters typed in the HTML code; thus facilitating the alignment of text.