On Wednesday, June 16, 2010 7:26:19 am Jeff Zeitlin wrote: > I 'edit' (for loose values of the word 'edit') a monthly PDF magazine. > When a new issue is released, the articles from the previous issue > become viewable on the magazine's website. Currently, I have separate > screen and print stylesheets for the articles on the web; this is - to > me - an old technique, and one that works well. > > Right now, the print stylesheet runs the content all the way across the > page as a single column. What I'd like to do is have it run the content > into two columns, such that - like the PDF magazine - you would read > down the left column, then down the right column, and if the article > overflows the page, the next page starts again on the left. Ideally, > the columns on the last page would be equalized, but I'm perfectly > willing to not try to do that at this time. > > I'm reluctant to do major hacking on the HTML; I'd prefer to stick to > just using CSS to do this. Am I asking for too much at this point? If > not, how do I do it? >
That depends. Are you willing to use CSS3 properties which are not supported in all browsers yet? If you are, then CSS can help you. Spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/ and usage: http://www.css3.info/preview/multi-column-layout/ I haven't tried it in a print stylesheet, but I have used it on actual pages and it works reasonably well. ---Tim ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
