Title: Nesting Columns problem&#8230;
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Nesting Columns problem…

 *  [markmapstone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markmapstone/)
 * (@markmapstone)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-columns-problem/)
 * Hi there. I want to nest a column within a column.
 * This is my code, but it isn’t working:
 *     ```
       [su_row]
          [su_column size="2/3"]
              <h3>Two thirds column</h3>
   
           [_su_row]
               [_su_column size="1/2"]
                   <strong>Nested column 1 here</strong>
               [_/su_column]
               [_su_column size="1/2"]
                   <strong>Nested column 2 here</strong>
               [_/su_column]
           [_/su_row]
   
           [/su_column]
   
           [su_column size="1/3"]
               <h3>One third column</h3>
           [/su_column]
       [/su_row]
       ```
   
 * I thought the underscores were supposed to allow nesting, but I’m clearly not
   getting it correct. Can someone tell me what the correct code should be? I’m 
   struggling here :/
 * My broken page is here: [http://alifast.co.uk/720-2/](http://alifast.co.uk/720-2/)
 * Mark
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 * [nesting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nesting/)

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 * Last reply from: [markmapstone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markmapstone/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-columns-problem/)
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