I keep reading that you can use html/css columns without using them in a table. The www.w3schools.org site shows that you can, but I can't get it to work out at all in my code. basically I have this idea.

```
      <div container="name">
         <dl>item 1 </dl>
         <dd>explain</dd>
         <dl>item 2 </dl>
         <dd>explain</dl>
         ...
      </div>

```

What I need is for the container to have three columns and the section with the detailed list to be two columns than I will put the info for the third column in its own column. I know the column span is the best way to keep that separate, but I can't find any good explanations for this. And I can't get it to work out of my css page or html page.