CSS column-fill Property

Description

The column-fill property controls how contents are partitioned into columns. Contents are either balanced, which means that contents in all columns will have the same height or, when using auto, just take up the room the content needs.

  • Initial valuebalance
  • Applies toMulti-column elements
  • InheritedNo
  • MediaVisual
  • Computed valueAs specified
  • AnimatableNo
  • CSS VersionCSS3
  • JavaScript syntaxobject.style.columnFill

Syntax

Formal syntax: auto | balance

column-fill: auto;
column-fill: balance;

Values

  • autoColumns are filled sequentially such that the columns may differ in length, depending on other column property values.
  • balanceBalance content equally between columns, if possible.

Example

body {
   column-fill: auto; 
}

Browser Support

noFirefoxnoExplorernoChromenoSafari11.1+Opera

Last updated on 23rd March 2014 By Rene Spronk

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