Magazines and newspapers have different layout rules than normal HTML webpages.
Originally, HTML wasn’t designed for formatting content in such a regimented manner, but CSS enables you to make those columns to create a kind of grid.
However, you will still need to fix certain aspects of that layout to successfully reproduce the look of magazine pages.
For example, text doesn’t automatically flow from column to column, and you can’t ‘wrap’ text around an object that breaks across more than one ‘column’ (or <div> container) either. The solution in both cases is to fake it.
Download Tutorial (PDF) | Magazine-style layouts with CSS
Originally, HTML wasn’t designed for formatting content in such a regimented manner, but CSS enables you to make those columns to create a kind of grid.
However, you will still need to fix certain aspects of that layout to successfully reproduce the look of magazine pages.
For example, text doesn’t automatically flow from column to column, and you can’t ‘wrap’ text around an object that breaks across more than one ‘column’ (or <div> container) either. The solution in both cases is to fake it.
Download Tutorial (PDF) | Magazine-style layouts with CSS