[thelist] Content flow between columns

[John Handelaar]

On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 17:43, Shaun Salnave wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know a way to have content flow from one element to another?
> I have got a css box in which I want several columns of text, but the height of the box varies depending on the browser size. I want to fill each column to the bottom of the box and then have the content flow into the next column, like this:
> One   | Four | Seven
> Two   | Five | Eight
> Three | Six  | Etc.
> I would like it to change if the box height was less (or more), so that it might look like this:
> One | Three | Five | Seven | Nine
> Two | Four  | Six  | Eight | Etc.
> It looks like it will be possible to do this with CSS3 (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/), but I was wondering if there was any way to do it now.

Can't tell you *how*, but I can point you to
the International Herald Tribune at http://www.iht.com
where they have exactly what you're talking about.

VF cool, imho

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