[thelist] Content flow between columns

[nate koechley]

i don't have the answer, but you might look at http://www.iht.com . The IHT 
site has some of the best CSS implementation (albeit not cross-browser); 
you might be able to reverse-engineer the multi-column aspect.

At 05:43 PM 1/9/2002 +0000, you 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.