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      This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.
The column-count CSS property breaks an element's content into the specified number of columns.
Try it
column-count: 2;
column-count: 3;
column-count: 4;
column-count: auto;
column-width: 8rem;
<section id="default-example">
  <p id="example-element">
    London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in
    Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets
    as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it
    would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so,
    waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
  </p>
</section>
#example-element {
  width: 100%;
  text-align: left;
}
Syntax
css
/* Keyword value */
column-count: auto;
/* <integer> value */
column-count: 3;
/* Global values */
column-count: inherit;
column-count: initial;
column-count: revert;
column-count: revert-layer;
column-count: unset;
Values
- auto
- 
The number of columns is determined by other CSS properties, such as column-width.
- <integer>
- 
Is a strictly positive <integer>describing the ideal number of columns into which the content of the element will be flowed. If thecolumn-widthis also set to a non-autovalue, it merely indicates the maximum allowed number of columns.
Formal definition
| Initial value | auto | 
|---|---|
| Applies to | Block containers except table wrapper boxes | 
| Inherited | no | 
| Computed value | as specified | 
| Animation type | an integer | 
Formal syntax
column-count =
auto |
<integer [1,∞]>
Examples
>Splitting a paragraph across three columns
HTML
html
<p class="content-box">
  This is a bunch of text split into three columns using the CSS
  <code>column-count</code>
  property. The text is equally distributed over the columns.
</p>
CSS
css
.content-box {
  column-count: 3;
}
Result
Specifications
| Specification | 
|---|
| CSS Multi-column Layout Module Level 1> # cc> | 
Browser compatibility
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See also
- column-width,- columnsshorthand
- column-rule-color,- column-rule-style,- column-rule-width,- column-ruleshorthand
- Learn: Multiple-column Layout (Learn Layout)
- Basic Concepts of Multicol