1 column blog with a 2 column post

  • logicalnot

    (@logicalnot)


    17 years ago

    Hi,

    I have a wide one column post of 850 px. Inside the column the post has the same width. Because it is too width for the text (each line is too long), i wish to split the content of the post itself in 2 or 3 columns.

    It should look like this :

    Name of the post
    ————————————————-

    Column 1 with text —- Column 2 with the following
    Column 1 with text —- Column 2 with the following
    Column 1 with text —- Column 2 with the following
    Column 1 with text —- Column 2 with the following
    Column 1 with text —- Column 2 with the following
    Column 1 with text
    Column 1 with text

    Next Post
    ———————————————-
    etc…

    I found this post that seems to be the key :
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/68137?replies=9

    I like the quicktag spliter idea the text a lot.
    It’s great because you can follow the meaning of the text gracefully.

    Unfortunaly I couldn’t make it work.
    I am missing some basic points.

    What code should I put and where?
    If I have to twist my CSS page, what should I do?

    Thank you very much for your patience and kindness.
    Logicalnot

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  • Justin Tadlock

    (@greenshady)

    17 years ago

    A simple way to do this would be to wrap however much text you want in each column in a div.

    <div class="column1">
Text...
</div>
<div class="column2">
Text...
</div>

    In style.css, add:

    .column1, .column2 {
float: left;
width: 45%;
}
.column1 { margin: 0 2% 0 0; }
.column2 { margin: 0 0 0 2%; }

    You might have to adjust those numbers while testing in different browsers because I haven’t tested this.

    There might be an better way to do this with WP, but this should work.

    Thread Starter logicalnot

    (@logicalnot)

    16 years, 12 months ago

    It works ! Thanks a lot.

    ( I wish to have a quicktag to do it more easily and make it perfect. But don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.)

    Thank you again.

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