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HTML DOM Style columns property

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Examples

The text is divided into three columns, each a minimum of 100 pixels:

document.getElementById("myDIV").style.columns="100px 3";

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Definition and Usage

columns property is a shorthand property for setting columnWidth and columnCount.


Browser Support

Internet ExplorerFirefoxOperaGoogle ChromeSafari

Opera and Internet Explorer 10 support columns property.

Firefox supports another alternative of the property attribute that MozColumns property.

Safari and Chrome support another alternative of the property attribute that WebkitColumns property.


grammar

Back columns attributes:

object .style.columns

Setting columns properties:

object .style.columns="auto|column-width column-count|initial|inherit"

Property Value

描述
auto 默认值。设置 column-width 为 "auto",column-count 为 "auto"。
columnWidth 列的宽度。
columnCount 列数。
initial 设置该属性为它的默认值。请参阅 initial
inherit 从父元素继承该属性。请参阅 inherit

technical details

Defaults: auto auto
return value: String representing the columns attribute element.
CSS version CSS3


related articles

CSS3 tutorial: CSS3 multi-column

CSS Reference: Columns property


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