@Brutal - that link does not

decibel.places — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:19:41 +0000

@Brutal - that link does not display anything related to this thread

@webwiz - as usual, David, you display a deep knowledge of web development. The list columns could work, with some prep on the creation of the content...

but of course there is a "gotcha" - the list items have to be equal to or less than the li width - otherwise a longer item will flow over many lines of the column (perhaps not a problem)

  <style>
	ul {
	  float: left;
	  width: 12em;
	  margin: 0;
	  padding: 0;
	  list-style: none;
	}
	 
	li {
	  float: left;
	  width: 6em;
	  margin: 0;
	  padding: 0;
	}
 </style>

 <ul>
  <li>Antelope Antelope Antelope Antelope Antelope</li>
  <li>Bison</li>
  <li>Camel</li>
  <li>Deer</li>
  <li>Eland</li>
  <li>Gazelle</li>
</ul>

while increasing the li width for the larger element (say 40em) loses the columns

BUT increasing the ul width too (say 50em) will restore columns, although the left one is wide to accomodate the longer first li

  <style>
	ul {
	  float: left;
	  width: 50em;
	  margin: 0;
	  padding: 0;
	  list-style: none;
	}
	 
	li {
	  float: left;
	  width: 20em;
	  margin: 0;
	  padding: 0;
	}
 </style>

There is this: Multiple

webwiz — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:16:03 +0000

There is this: Multiple Column Lists - seems to work cross-browser.

not that I know of... I can

decibel.places — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:51:57 +0000

not that I know of...

I can imagine a dhtml solution, using character counts and/or element heights to create columns, sounds like it may be more trouble than it's worth

a designer recently gave me a 3-column layout made in Illustrator and was surprised each column had to go into a separate container for the web.

the column-count property sounds useful, but I prefer to make the doc structure with HTML and use CSS for display - column-count is sort of structure

While using a fixed column

pr0gr4mm3r — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:49:09 +0000

While using a fixed column layout works most of the time, I would need a solution for dynamic content. For example, if I have a list of 100 items (sorted), and I need to add one in the middle, it can get annoying moving them over to other columns manually.