HTML - <multicol> Tag

The HTML <multicol> tag is used to create multiple columns of text and lets you control the size and number of the columns.

The <multicol> tag can contain any other HTML content, much like the <div> tag. All of the content within the <multicol> tag is displayed just like conventional content, except that Netscape 4 places the contents into multiple columns instead of just one.

This tag is no longer recommended as it is deprecated and not supported in the HTML5 and is supported by Netscape 3 .

Example

Following example will create a three columns layout in Netscape.

<h1>Breaking News</h1>
<multicol cols = 3>
   <p>State media said more than 2,000 soldiers, police and miners 
   closed the breach in the dike in Shandong province early Sunday and 
   installed pipes and five high-speed pumps, but gave no indication if 
   there were any signs of life.</p>
   
   <p>The Huayuan Mining Co. mine flooded on Friday afternoon when the 
   Wen river burst a dike, sending water pouring into a shaft and trapping 
   172 miners, Xinhua and state television said.</p>
</multicol>

On running the above code, it will generate an output consisting of he text displayed on the webpage.

Attributes

Standard Attributes