I have a simple webpage I am setting up.

http://nnolscotland.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-national-network-for-outdoor.html

The list of organisations halfway through – if I have them as text, there are two neat columns (which is what I want). As soon as I add a hyperlink to the text, it reverts to two columns.

What gives…?

Someone much clever than me will be along shortly, but I’ve used the “pre” tag to preserve text I have already formatted (this is only for simply HTML email signatures though!)

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/html/html_pre_tag.htm

You have two columns and then it changes to two columns?  ❓

It there CSS applying unwanted formatting to <A> tags?

your bottom column, the second “para-50” div is outside the the “multiple-para” div, both para-50 divs need to be with in that div. (I’m assuming you want 2 columns). if you right click(on chrome) goto inspect, you can move the div to test what I mean.

cheers sesomah – that has solved it.

For some reason when I added a link in, it moved one of the div…

Semantically a list should be < ul > < li > item 1 < /li >  < li > item 2 < /li > </ ul >(if unordered, use ol instead if the the order is important). At the moment you are using line breaks to simulate a list.

See https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_lists.asp

You also appear to be using line breaks to simulate paragraphs.

It is because most is auto generated by Blogger – I haven’t coded from scratch….

no worries glad to help. Yeah, can see you’ve been using something to edit it, just a quirk of that(along with many others obv, not within my remit to teach html here though! 😆 ).