Creating two text boxes side by side

chrisj

I probably shouldn't have asked for "text boxes".

I'd just like to split some text up into two short columns, separated by a vertical line, in the middle of full lines of text like so:

text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

text text text text text text text l text text text text text text
text text text text text text text l text text text text text text
text text text text text text text l text text text text text text
text text text text text text text l text text text text text text

Can you help me with this?

thanks.

NogDog

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang='en'>
<head>
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1'>
<title>Untitled</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
   margin: 0;
   padding: 1% 2%;
   font: 90% arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.left {
   float: left;
   width: 46%;
   padding: 0 3% 0 0;
   border-right: solid 1px black;
}
.right {
   float: left;
   width: 46%;
   padding: 0 0 0 4%;
   margin-left: -1px;
   border-left: solid 1px black;
}
.clear {
   clear: both;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim
veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea
commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate
velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.</p>
<p class='left'>
Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui
officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore
et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation
ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.</p>
<p class='right'>
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum
dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod
tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</p>
<p class='clear'>
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi
ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit
in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur
sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt
mollit anim id est laborum.</p>
</body>
</html>