Well if you aren't worried about Netscape 4 then its real easy to fix this problem with CSS.

  1. Don't use tables! Use <div> tags instead.
  2. Assign each column an ID
  3. Set the position for each column on the id (you'll probably need position:absolute; use top and left to put it on the page where you want it)</code>
  4. Make a class that you can specify for each column. Set the width you want the columns to be (can be a percentage as well) and set the height to 'auto' and the div will grow with your content going down the page.

There are some other tricks like setting your divs to scroll if there is too much content. Have a look at http://w3schools.org/ for some examples and other parameters.

Update 2003-06-10: I was asked to provide an example which can be found here. The example was tested with Mozilla, Konqueror, IE 5.5 and Opera 7. The only problem I found was that Konqueror doesn't properly recognize the scroll property. Enjoy. (P.S. code on that page is free for anyone to use/modify/whatever)

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