The columns CSS shorthand property sets the number of columns to use when drawing an element's contents, as well as those columns' widths.
The columns CSS shorthand property sets the number of columns to use when drawing an element's contents, as well as those columns' widths.
columns: 2;
columns: 6rem auto;
columns: 12em;
columns: 3;
<section id="default-example">
<p id="example-element">
London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in
Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets
as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it
would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so,
waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
</p>
</section>
#example-element {
min-width: 21rem;
text-align: left;
}
This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:
/* Column width */
columns: 18em;
/* Column count */
columns: auto;
columns: 2;
/* Both column width and count */
columns: 2 auto;
columns: auto 12em;
columns: auto auto;
/* Global values */
columns: inherit;
columns: initial;
columns: revert;
columns: revert-layer;
columns: unset;
The columns property may be specified as one or two of the values listed below, in any order.
<'column-width'>The ideal column width, defined as a column-width.
<'column-count'>The ideal number of columns into which the element's content should be flowed, defined as an column-count.
| Inherited | no |
|---|---|
| Animation type | as each of the properties of the shorthand: |
columns =
||
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fit-content( <length-percentage> )
<column-count> =
auto <length [0,∞]>
<column-wrap> =
nowrap <percentage>
<p class="content-box">
This is a bunch of text split into three columns using the CSS `columns`
property. The text is equally distributed over the columns.
</p>
.content-box {
columns: 3 auto;
}
| Specification |
|---|
| CSS Multi-column Layout Module Level 1 # columns |
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