You just can't do that. You'll have no control of the individual columns. Adobe wants it to be more powerful than this http://www.quirksmode.org/css/multicolumn

You just can't do that. You'll have no control of the individual columns. Adobe wants it to be more powerful than this http://www.quirksmode.org/css/multicolumn.html http://www.quirksmode.org/css/multicolumn.html. Still, if by using that, you're implying a pseudo class or something like #container:first-column and so on, there's risk of having a mismatch with regards to the number of columns defined on the parent.