INTRODUCING MULTI-COLUMN LAYOUTS
The multi-column layout is a module of the draft CSS3 specification, and by extension, HTML5. It enables you to organize web page data into multiple columns of variable height and width, depending on how much content there is to display.
Because this is still a draft feature, its specifications could change. This is why not all browsers support this feature, and those that do require a special prefix to all flexible box properties, as per their time of implementation. As of August 2011, only Safari, Chrome, and Firefox support the multi-column layout working draft specification dated December 17, 2009. A newer specification was released on April 12, 2011, to address minor clarification issues in the original draft. ...
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