Two-column custom page layout - is there a bug?

I'm building a custom page and it would be ideal for this one to use the two-column layout:

I've chosen this layout and put an html widget in each column:

It looks fine in the edit view, but when I publish the page, both widgets are in the right column, and the second one is compressed in an odd way.

is there a bug in this page layout? Or does it not play well with html widgets, or...? I would submit a support case but I wonder if I'm just doing something wrong. Thanks for your help!



Edited to fix some inline graphics.
[edited by: Sherri Vance at 8:29 PM (GMT 0) on Wed, Jul 29 2020]