[I should say at the start, you’ll need to view the post on my site to appreciate this.]
Well, first of all, did you see the quiz I post yesterday? It went something like this:
1. | blah blah blah |
In fact, to get there, I had to select a Table block and edit it manually. If I’d have just created a table from the editor, and used it as is, I’d have got:
1. | blah blah blah |
See how it mangles the widths?
So I sent a message to WordPress and asked if there was any way to do this visually, without faffing around with the underlying code. Turns out, there is a block called the Columns block instead. This allows me to create my columns, entirely within the visual editor. Set the widths, and all.
I thought I’d mention it for two reasons. First, this appears to be quite a powerful block. After you’ve said how many columns you want, you can not only set their widths, but you can also fill then with whatever other blocks you like. I mean, I was only interested in writing a bit of text, but you could put images, or lists, or (I guess) loads of other things, if the fancy takes you.
Second, this is the one time I have to go beyond the block editor and fiddle with the underlying code.
I’ve seen/used these blocks where you can display media and text side-by-side, but it’s clear to me now that that is just a special case of a Columns block. So, this is what my quiz would’ve looked like if I’d have used the Columns block.
1.
blah, blah, blah
or

The quick brown fox
- blah
- blah
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days
hours minutes seconds
until
Christmas
and all done visually!