Title: postbox-container-3
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# postbox-container-3

 *  [WebTechGlobal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webtechglobal/)
 * (@webtechglobal)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postbox-container-3/)
 * I’ve studied plugins that have postbox-container-1 and postbox-container-2 in
   use. The best implementation of post boxes I have seen is in TablePress…
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/)
 * None of TablePress views have three columns. I thought it would be as simple 
   as copying the div for first and second columns but postbox-container-3 only 
   creates an empty space that no boxes can be positioned within.
 * The Screen Options displays the 3rd radio so that is being selected.
 * What is the solution?
 * Is there any plugins using three columns of post boxes like on the dashboard?
 * Here is the HTML…
 *     ```
       <div id="poststuff">
                       <div id="post-body" class="metabox-holder columns-<?php echo ( isset( $GLOBALS['screen_layout_columns'] ) && ( 2 == $GLOBALS['screen_layout_columns'] ) ) ? '2' : '1'; ?>">
   
                           <div id="postbox-container-2" class="postbox-container">
                               <?php
                               $this->do_text_boxes( 'normal' );
                               $this->do_meta_boxes( 'normal' );
   
                               $this->do_text_boxes( 'additional' );
                               $this->do_meta_boxes( 'additional' );
   
                               // print all submit buttons
                               $this->do_text_boxes( 'submit' );
                               ?>
                           </div>
                           <div id="postbox-container-1" class="postbox-container">
                           <?php
                               // print all boxes in the sidebar
                               $this->do_text_boxes( 'side' );
                               $this->do_meta_boxes( 'side' );
                           ?>
                           </div>
   
                       </div>
                       <br class="clear" />
                   </div>
   
               </div>
       ```
   

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