Re: Text-columns and CSS

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-10-25 12:17, Tom Davis wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On 2006 Oct 25, at 4:19 am, Erik Wikström wrote:
> > Saw a page just the other day where the amount of columns adapted  
> > to the resolution and textsize dynamically, so when I increased the  
> > fontsize the number of columns decreased.
>
> Do you happen to know the url of that site? As useful as it obviously  
> would be, there is no CSS2.1 attribute that will reflow a block of  
> text into multiple columns. It is certainly possible to intercept  
> window resize events and use javascript to move words of text between  
> DIVs to balance them and add new columns as necessary, but there is  
> no way I know of to intercept user changes of text size (Firefox &  
> Safari) or Zoom level (Opera) so I'd be very interested in seeing how  
> someone else did it. That could be a real boon.
>
> Of course, the site is probably flash, which is proprietary and not  
> well supported on the BSDs.

No, the site was not in flash, though I have not been able to find it. I 
have, however, been able to reproduce the behavior of that site (though 
I don't know if they used the same method.

Take a look at: http://www.chalmers.it/~eriwik/test.html (should work in 
Firefox v1.5 and later)

The number of columns change as the size of the window change, or the 
fontsize change. It's using non-standard CSS (from a W3C draft *) and 
the properties have been prepended with "-moz-".

* www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol

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Erik Wikström