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How about webpages that flow their text across multiple columns?
by throwanem 6y ago
How about webpages that flow their text across multiple columns?
- Lammy 6y agoVery impressive text justification / linebreaking algorithm though. I didn't know FrontPage could do that! <meta content="Microsoft FrontPage 12.0" name="GENERATOR" />
- throwanem 6y agoThere's a longstanding and widely implemented CSS working draft for columnar text, that even IE 10 apparently supports. No idea if this page is actually using it, since I'm not going upstairs just to pull up this page and poke around its stylesheet, but I could imagine Expression Web (aka Frontpage 12) making it available. edit: Being upstairs anyway for other reasons, I've just had a look. It's just two <div> elements as columns in an old-school grid style system that predates CSS Grid. Text is flowed within the columns using a text-align: justify; rule, so the impressiveness of the result is properly credited to the browser rather than the site design.
- RandomBacon 6y agoI just use: <p style="columns:3;">
- throwanem 6y agoYes, that's specified in the WD I mentioned. https://www.w3.org/TR/css-multicol-1/ https://www.w3.org/TR/css-multicol-1/
- RandomBacon 6y agoI'm sorry. Thank you for pointing it out.
- throwanem 6y agoYou've nothing for which to apologize that I can see! If anything, I was unduly curt, and I'm sorry for that.