How much do you know about css3 attribute column

CSS3 can design text content into a multi-column layout like a newspaper. Like this:

Such a layout is called "multi-column layout".

Learn multiple column attributes separately:

For all attributes of column, ie10+ supports it, but firefox does not support column-span. The column-fill attribute is not supported in all browsers except Firefox.

1. column-count: The number of columns to be divided

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<span style="color: #800000;">div </span>{<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 3</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 3</span>;
}

Passed the test, firefox (version 49.0.1) needs to add the -moz- prefix, chrome, opera, safari can display normally without adding the -webkit- prefix, ie10+, edge can display normally without adding the prefix. After reducing the page (when not reducing the size, only two columns are displayed due to insufficient text characters) the display effect is:

2. column-gap: the gap between columns

The default is 16px under IE, and is not explicitly given in other browsers.

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    当我年轻的时候，我梦想改变这个世界；当我成熟以后，我发现我不能够改变这个世界，我将目光缩短了些，决定只改变我的国家；当我进入暮年以后，我发现我不能够改变我们的国家，我的最后愿望仅仅是改变一下我的家庭，但是，这也不可能。当我现在躺在床上，行将就木时，我突然意识到：如果一开始我仅仅去改变我自己，然后，我可能改变我的家庭；在家人的帮助和鼓励下，我可能为国家做一些事情；然后，谁知道呢?我甚至可能改变这个世界。
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<span style="color: #800000;">div </span>{<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 4</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 4</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-gap</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 40px</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-gap</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 40px</span>;         
}

3. column-rule-width: The width of the border between columns

4. column-rule-style: Border style between columns

5. column-rule-color: Border color between columns

The above three attributes can be abbreviated as column-rule. Same as border, one or both of width and color can be omitted among these three attributes. The browser will use the default width and color, but style cannot be omitted. Test in Google Chrome:

(1). Omit width (chrome defaults to 3px, other browsers do not give it explicitly)

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    这么多年咨询信看下来，让我逐渐明白了一件事。很多时候，咨询者心里已经有了答案，来咨询只是想确认自己的确定是对的。所以有些人读过回信后，会再次来信，大概就是因为回答的内容和他们的想法不一样吧。
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<span style="color: #800000;">div </span>{<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 4</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 4</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-gap</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 40px</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-gap</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 40px</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-rule-style</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> solid</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-rule-style</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> solid</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-rule-color</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> #f00</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-rule-color</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> #f00</span>;
}

(2). Omit color (default is rbg(0,0,0))

<span style="color: #800000;">div </span>{<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 4</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 4</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-gap</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 40px</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-gap</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 40px</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-rule-width</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 2px</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-rule-width</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 2px</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-rule-style</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> solid</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-rule-style</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> solid</span>;
}

(3). Both width and color are omitted

<span style="color: #800000;">div </span>{<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 4</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 4</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-gap</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 40px</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-gap</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 40px</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-rule-style</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> dotted</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-rule-style</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> dotted</span>;
}

6. column-span: The number of columns the element spans (not supported by firefox)

Available values ​​are 1 and all, and the default value is 1. Firefox does not support this attribute, but when using this attribute value, the realization effect is the same as column-span: 1;, so you can use column-span: 1; with confidence. It is not recommended to use column-span: all;

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<span style="color: #800000;">div </span>{<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 4</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 4</span>;
}<span style="color: #800000;">
h2 </span>{<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-span</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 1</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-span</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 1</span>;
}

Unlike other attributes, column-span is used on child elements to indicate how many columns it spans, just like the col-span attribute in a table. Because the value used is 1 instead of all, the display effect in the firefox browser is the same as in other browsers.

7. column-width: The width of the column

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<span style="color: #800000;">div </span>{<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 4</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-count</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 4</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-column-width</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 200px</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         column-width</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 200px</span>;    
}

This attribute has many requirements: the product of column number and width (column-count * column-width) should be smaller than the width of the page to display the desired four-column effect. When the number of text words is relatively small and the page is relatively wide, four columns cannot be displayed, and only three columns or less may be displayed.

8. column-fill: How to fill columns

This attribute is currently only supported by firefox. Fill is translated as filling, so column-fill is the way to specify the column filling. There are two values ​​available, balance, column length balance, the browser should try to minimize changing the length of the column. auto, the columns are filled sequentially and they will have different lengths.

9. columns: Specify the width and number of columns

This is a co-written property, which is the co-written property of column-width and column-count.

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<span style="color: #800000;">div </span>{<span style="color: #ff0000;">
    -moz-columns</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 150px 4</span>;<span style="color: #ff0000;">
         columns</span>:<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 150px 4</span>;    
}

Not all properties of this co-writing satisfy width and count. For this exampleWe ignore the spacing between each column and assume that the spacing between each column is 0. Then when the width of the text is not less than 600px, the text will always display 4 columns (at least it really wants to display 4 columns, if the number of text words is enough, it will definitely display 4 columns), it cannot be satisfied with the width of 150px at the same time; when the width of the text When the width is less than 600px, the text is displayed in 3 columns. When the text width is less than 300px, the text is displayed in 2 columns.

In this example, the number of columns displayed varies with the available width of the element.

Displayed as 4 columns:

Displayed as 3 columns:

Displayed as 2 columns:

Displayed as 1 column:

Summary: Then this co-writing attribute can be understood as (still assuming that the spacing between each column is 0): when the available width of the element is small, it only displays 1 column; when the available width of the element is not less than count * 2, it Display 2 columns; when the available width of the element is not less than count * 3, it displays 3 columns; by analogy with this rule, when the available width of the element is not less than count * width, it is displayed as the width column.

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Some guesses:

When the available width of the element is determined, how should the page be laid out when column-width, column-count and coiumn-gap are set?

After testing, we can basically draw the following conclusions:

1. The summary in point 9 is still valid here;

2. When the width of the element can fit into two or more columns (one column, no spacing), the column-gap spacing can always be satisfied.