http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/ A Layout forum thread at WPDFD.com en-us 08/09/04, 222 56 2004 2004:%i:1092045413 05:56:53 06/07/13, 158 13 2013 2013:%i:1370592781 04:13:01 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NineLabs Framework Feed Generator sitemaster@wpdfd.com sitemaster@wpdfd.com http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1178 This can be done with tables or css boxes but can it be done automatically, so that you don't need to do it manually?]]> 08/09/04, 222 56 2004 2004:%i:1092045413 05:56:53 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1178 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1179 08/09/04, 222 10 2004 2004:%i:1092064253 11:10:53 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1179 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1180 09/09/04, 253 02 2004 2004:%i:1094738528 10:02:08 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1180 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1181
How it works is that there are three columns (divs) with the same text in them. The JavaScript reads the height of the columns and adjusts the clipping - so in the first column, the text below the column height is clipped (hidden), in the second column, it is clipped at the top and the bottom and so on.

Unfortunately it doesn't work in IE (Mac) because it is unable to read the column height so you have to scroll to the bottom of the first column, back up to the top again, down, up to the top again and down again.

And all to make it 'look' like a paper newspaper!]]> 09/10/04, 254 00 2004 2004:%i:1094842816 15:00:16 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1181 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1182
But I do like to read it on the web, as opposed to many sites with very wide or long columns. Hopefully CSS will eventually include text columns so that this type of design could be more easily accomplished.]]> 09/17/04, 261 46 2004 2004:%i:1095464774 19:46:14 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1182 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1183 It would also make horizontally scrolling sites more viable.  I know horizontal scrolling is a bit of a no-no because if your'e not careful it means having to scroll in both directions (clearly not desirable) but this approach would avoid the problem and some sites would suit it.]]> 09/19/04, 263 56 2004 2004:%i:1095616598 13:56:38 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1183 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1184 09/23/04, 267 27 2004 2004:%i:1095953233 11:27:13 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/layout/columns/#p1184