[thelist] Content flow between columns

[Shaun Salnave]

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.

TIA, shaun