Anonymous

# April 15, 2013 at 8:32 am

How to make multiple column like newspaper using css3?

Blackhawkso

# April 15, 2013 at 8:40 am

This is one simple way to do it.

[http://cdpn.io/mEKdF](http://cdpn.io/mEKdF)

Senff

# April 15, 2013 at 9:45 am

You can use the CSS3 multicolumn layout: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/

Very limited support though: http://caniuse.com/#feat=multicolumn

pkos99

# April 16, 2013 at 10:27 am

Chris made a video on this a while back, but he makes an entire grid system.

http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/115-dont-overthink-it-grids/

Paulie_D

# April 16, 2013 at 11:26 am

I’ve been experimenting in Codepen.

It’s all unprefixed and as @Senff said….has very limited support.

http://codepen.io/Paulie-D/pen/khdJH

Odd top-margin bug on the contents which I’ve had to ‘hack’…any thoughts?

rodolpheb

# April 16, 2013 at 12:01 pm

Great example @Paulie_D.
I think you missed “column” in front of “gap”.

Paulie_D

# April 16, 2013 at 12:10 pm

>@rodolpheb

Thanks…so I did. Fixed

rodolpheb

# April 16, 2013 at 12:20 pm

Actually the universal selector works (just not on Codepen). I’ve tested it on Safari, Chrome, Opera, Firefox (Mac)

Paulie_D

# April 16, 2013 at 12:59 pm

Oh…I know it works **generally** but if I remove the margin-top: 0 from the p tag there is a gap at the top of the first column even with the the universal margin set to 0.

rodolpheb

# April 16, 2013 at 1:13 pm

On your example:
– with the universal margin set to 0,
– and with the margin-top: 0 from the p tag removed
it works.
Try without using Codepen. :)

Paulie_D

# April 16, 2013 at 1:15 pm

Hmmm….must be a Codepen issue then.