Custom Formatting of a ADF Read-Only Form

From what I've worked with so far, the ADF read-only form will only allow you to pick the number of "rows" and "columns" to format data. Columns titles are aligned to the left and column values aligned to the right.
But the specs I've been given are for a highly customized layout, with column titles above the column values, and with some rows containing only two columns of data and some rows requiring up to ten columns of data.
How can I adjust the format of ADF components, like read-only forms, to customize the layout?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the advice Shay.
What I need to do is take one view object's data (20 columns) and spread them out, in HTML terms, into multiple tables to provide various TR/TD formats on a single screen.
Are you saying it is possible to layout a single view object's columns into different layout panels to mimic multiple HTML table formats?
Thanks again.

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