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Web pages are normally divided into three or four vertical columns. Before the advent of browsers that were capable of fully understanding CSS, page columns were created by using tables; this practice has now been deprecated (made obsolete and unacceptable). In fact, the inventors of HTML never intended that tables should be used for page layout.
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West, A.W. (2016). Create Web Pages with Three Columns Using CSS. In: Practical Web Design for Absolute Beginners. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1993-5_4
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