The invention discloses a multi-window display method for a terminal. The method comprises the following steps: sensing a multi-window display request triggered by application software on the terminal; according to the multi-window display request, acquiring a child window attribute corresponding to the application software; controlling a process of the application software to be under an activated state; and according to the child window attribute corresponding to the application software, controlling the child window corresponding to the application software to be displayed together with all windows in a current display screen. The invention further discloses a multi-window display device for the terminal. The multi-window display method and device for the terminal provided by the invention realize the window display corresponding to an amount of application software in the same page.