<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>multicolumn | column-span</title>
<link rel="author" title="Opera Software ASA" href="http://www.opera.com/">
<style type="text/css">
body {
margin: 0;
}
body>div {
font-family: ahem;
font-size: 1em;
line-height: 1em;
color: navy;
background: yellow;
margin: 1em;
border: 1em solid gray;
width: 8em;
height: 13em;
position: relative;
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
}
div div {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 8em;
height: 2em;
background: navy;
}
#s2 {
top: 11em;
}
#s3 {
background: black;
top: 3em;
}
#s4 {
background: pink;
top: 5em;
height: 1em;
}
#s5 {
background: black;
top: 6em;
height: 1em;
}
#s6 {
background: pink;
top: 7em;
height: 1em;
}
#s7 {
background: black;
top: 9em;
height: 1em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<div></div>
<div id="s2"></div>
<div id="s3"></div>
<div id="s4"></div>
<div id="s5"></div>
<div id="s6"></div>
<div id="s7"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>