<snip> My only other idea, and the only other one mentioned in the pages I found, is to just manually split the text into two side-by-side text areas. This means the user who will ultimately maintain the page (not me) will update it by editing two separate text elements and putting half of the text into each. Yucky, but I don't have any better ideas. </snip> I'd take a look at an approach written about recently at A List Apart: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/crosscolumn/ http://www.alistapart.com/articles/crosscolumn2/ Daniel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com