HTML Multiple Newspaper Columns

[ast3r3x]

I really am under the impression this can't be done, but I doubt I might as well ask because it's something I'd like to do. Does anyone know how to make columns like you'd have in a newspaper? Obviously this isn't very difficult, but I want the text to wrap so that anything that would be cut off from the first column goes into the second.


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Is this possible easily without playing with javascript?

[Brad]

That feature is in the working draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-multicol-20010118/#content) for CSS3, but I don't think it's easily possible today.

[torifile]

I've seen a really cool news site with columns like that. I don't know if it was css and I can't even remember the name of it. But at the time I thought it was a very nice way to present a lot of text.

[Brad]

I've seen several sites that simulate flowing columns like a newspaper or magazine, but they don't actually implement them as you would think. The most recent example that comes to mind is the Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics (http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/) page.

[ast3r3x]

That feature is in the working draft (http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-multicol-20010118/#content) for CSS3, but I don't think it's easily possible today.
Oh wow, that'll be awesome! Not sure why they didn't think of this before though.

Thanks guys, I didn't think it was really possible, I'll just go the fake route, which is good enough, I was just hoping there was a real way for future knowledge.

[rollercoaster375]

It's implemented by Gecko, not sure about Safari or IE(7).