NN <6 IE n/a HTML n/a

HTML End Tag: Required

A Navigator-specific (Versions 3 and 4) element that renders its content in any number of evenly spaced flowing columns on the page. The way this element flows content might remind you of a desktop publishing program that automatically flows long content into column space that has been defined for the page. There is no equivalent for this element in HTML or Internet Explorer, but a CSS-related proposal for a multicolumn layout attribute may find its way into CSS3. None of these attributes are built into Version 6 browsers.

Example

<MULTICOL cols="2" gutter="20" width="500">
LongFlowingHTMLContent
</MULTICOL>

Element-Specific Attributes

cols

gutter

width

Element-Specific Event Handler Attributes

None.

cols	NN <6 IE n/a HTML n/a

cols="columnCount"	Required
Defines the number of columns across which the browser distributes and renders the content of the element. For a given width of the content, the browser does its best to make each column the same length. The proposed CSS equivalent attribute is column-number.

Example

<MULTICOL cols="2" gutter="20" width="500"> LongFlowingHTMLContent </MULTICOL>

Value
Any positive integer.

Default
1

gutter	NN <6 IE n/a HTML n/a

gutter="pixelCount"	Optional
Specifies the number of pixels to be placed between columns. The browser then calculates the width of the content columns by subtracting all the gutters from the total available width. The proposed CSS equivalent attribute is column-gap.

Example

<MULTICOL cols="2" gutter="20" width="500"> LongFlowingHTMLContent </MULTICOL>

Value
Any positive integer.

Default
10

lang	NN 3 IE 4 HTML 4

lang="languageCode"	Optional
The language being used for the element's attribute values and content. A browser can use this information to assist in proper rendering of content with respect to details such as treatment of ligatures (when supported by a particular font or required by a written language), quotation marks, and hyphenation. Other applications and search engines might use this information to aid the selection of spell-checking dictionaries and the creation of indices.

Example

<SPAN lang="de">Deutsche Bundesbahn</SPAN>

Value
Case-insensitive language code.

Default
Browser default.

Object Model Reference

[window.]document.getElementById(elementID).lang

width	NN <6 IE n/a HTML n/a

width="elementWidth"	Optional
Defines the total width of the columns plus gutters. You can specify the width in pixels or as a percentage of the width of the next outer container (usually the document body). The proposed CSS equivalent attribute is the existing width attribute.

Example

<MULTICOL cols="2" gutter="20" width="500"> LongFlowingHTMLContent </MULTICOL>

Value
Any length value in pixels or percentage of available space.

Default
100%