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CSS columns property

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Description

It is a shorthand property of column-width and column-count. It defines the number of columns as well as the width of columns.

Syntax

columns : column-width   column-count

Property values

column-width

autoDefault

In this case, the width of columns is determined by the number of columns.

column-width: auto;
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+ve length

100

length determines the width of a column in a block. The total width of the box is 300px.

100px represents the width of a column. Three columns are covering the the full width of 300px.

column-width: 100px;
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column-count

autoDefault

In this case, the number of columns depend upon the column-width.

column-count: auto;
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+ve integer

4

integer value determines the number of columns in a block. 4 means four columns in a block.

column-count: 4;
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Applicable to

It applies to multi-column container.