I have been looking for something like this for long time and i think i wasted a lot more time looking for this, than the time to took me to build it, its actually a very simple way of laying our the components, but very powerful when you are writing corporate or form based applications. The question is simple, how can we have a multi colum form component, i am wrting a Form component that will have a more powerfull layout, holds data, reset and validate the content, but this time i just wanted to share this way to layout a multi column form, i will share the full component once is done, otherways the post will get too long. So this basic layout has to modes, one is Column mode and the other one is Direction mode ( dont orget to right click to see the source code).

Its basically reusing the form component and aligning them using boxes, i don’t know how useful is this for you, but if you are interested on the full component, let me know.