hi,

there are some old forum posts about this thema ... but I want to ask you again, may some of you have new innovative solutions or may know a module to do this:

Whats the best way to give a user the possibility to create multiple columns in backend?
For example I want a layout with a 100% col, then 3 cols, then 2 cols, then again a 100% col. In each col I want to insert just HMTL content (HTMLText).

And I dont mean just to give him some page types with different layouts, thats not very flexible ...

happy ss'ing

hi

"as in 100% at the top, 3 underneath, 2 under that and then 100% at the bottom?" => YES I mean like that

The user should can create multiple column layouts without using page types. All the needed HTML code should stored
just in $Content field ... so it's more a JS thing I think ...

I use CSS3 for doing this now.

http://www.w3schools.com/css3/css3_multiple_columns.asp

Or I just create new HTMLEditorField for each column.

You could create a has_many rule to a object like

<?php
class Column extends DataObject {

   static $db = array(
      "Content" => "HTMLText",
   );

   public static $has_one = array(
      "Page" => "Page"
   );
}

And then use a complexTableField to create as many columns as you want for each page... maybe. You will need to create some funky Template loops and also clever CSS or javascript to float and set widths of each column.

Hope this helps