Newspaper columns?

[Dan Abrey]

Just on the offchance really - can you create some sort of code using either
HTML, CSS or a dynamic language to make text continue on the next table
column if it reaches the bottom of a set pixel value? I'm sure this can't be
done, but I'm just wondering..

Dan Abrey

 

[Mark Parnell]

[netscape.public.dev.css snipped as it doesn't exist on my server]

Just on the offchance really - can you create some sort of code using either
HTML, CSS or a dynamic language to make text continue on the next table
column if it reaches the bottom of a set pixel value?

No. At least, not yet.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-multicol-20010118/

 

[Jim Higson]

[netscape.public.dev.css snipped as it doesn't exist on my server]

Just on the offchance really - can you create some sort of code using
either HTML, CSS or a dynamic language to make text continue on the next
table column if it reaches the bottom of a set pixel value?

No. At least, not yet.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-multicol-20010118/

there's always iht.com not sure how they do it mind.

 

[Mark Parnell]

there's always iht.com not sure how they do it mind.

Looks like some sort of Javascript hackery - you don't even see the
article unless you allow Javascript. Hardly an ideal solution.

 

[Dan Abrey]

Looks like some sort of Javascript hackery - you don't even see the
article unless you allow Javascript. Hardly an ideal solution.

It certainly looks like it, along with some CSS wizardry looking at their
CSS document..

I just wondered, as it would be a great touch to a news reporting site - but
only if it was easily introduced.

 

[Mark Parnell]

It certainly looks like it, along with some CSS wizardry looking at their
CSS document..

Nope. All the CSS really does is hide the article text (which otherwise
just goes straight down the left side of the page over everything else),
then they use Javascript to display and format it.[1]

Doesn't work properly in anything other than IE, of course.

[1] I love Mozilla's DOM Inspector.

 

[tm]

Dan Abrey <[email protected]>declared in alt.html:

It certainly looks like it, along with some CSS wizardry looking at their
CSS document..

Nope. All the CSS really does is hide the article text (which otherwise
just goes straight down the left side of the page over everything else),
then they use Javascript to display and format it.[1]

Doesn't work properly in anything other than IE, of course.

iht.com? Works perfectly in Safari.

 

[Webcastmaker]

No. At least, not yet.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-multicol-20010118/

Sadly, with the way things go in the browser world we should see this
implemented in about 2014.....

 

[Sam Hughes]

I just wondered, as [multicolumn layouts] would be a great touch to a
news reporting site
- but only if it was easily introduced.

I don't want to have to scroll up to the top of a page in order to read an
article's next column, when the "feature" is only enjoyed by the designer.

 

[Justin Wood]

Just on the offchance really - can you create some sort of code using either
HTML, CSS or a dynamic language to make text continue on the next table
column if it reaches the bottom of a set pixel value? I'm sure this can't be
done, but I'm just wondering..

Dan Abrey

Well there is a CSS spec for this [1], but I know of no browser that
does it.

Mozilla is working on adding this functionality [2], but since the spec
is not complete, no eta is available on when we will support it.

Assuming you mean the type of display typical in USA newspaper columns.

~Justin Wood

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-multicol-20010118/
[2] Bugzilla Bug 251162 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251162

 

[Mark Parnell]

Sadly, with the way things go in the browser world we should see this
implemented in about 2014.....

In IE, anyway. :-( It will probably be implemented in other browsers
within a couple of years at most.

 

[Jim Higson]

Dan Abrey <[email protected]>declared in alt.html:

It certainly looks like it, along with some CSS wizardry looking at
their CSS document..

Nope. All the CSS really does is hide the article text (which otherwise
just goes straight down the left side of the page over everything else),
then they use Javascript to display and format it.[1]

Doesn't work properly in anything other than IE, of course.

iht.com? Works perfectly in Safari.

And konqueror. (bit slow)

 

[Mark Parnell]

And konqueror. (bit slow)

Seems I didn't test as thoroughly as I thought. I don't have a KHTML
browser handy to test on here, but it seems to work in Opera as well.
Definitely doesn't work in Gecko browsers though (and probably others
too).