column-span
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2020.
The column-span CSS property makes it possible for an element to span across all columns when its value is set to all.
Try it
column-span: none;
column-span: all;
<section id="default-example">
<div class="multicol-element">
<p>
London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in
Lincoln's Inn Hall.
</p>
<div id="example-element">Spanner?</div>
<p>
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>
</div>
</section>
.multicol-element {
width: 100%;
text-align: left;
column-count: 3;
}
.multicol-element p {
margin: 0;
}
#example-element {
background-color: rebeccapurple;
padding: 10px;
color: white;
}
An element that spans more than one column is called a spanning element.
Syntax
css
/* Keyword values */
column-span: none;
column-span: all;
/* Global values */
column-span: inherit;
column-span: initial;
column-span: revert;
column-span: revert-layer;
column-span: unset;
The column-span property is specified as one of the keyword values listed below.
Values
Formal definition
| Initial value | none |
|---|---|
| Applies to | in-flow block-level elements |
| Inherited | no |
| Computed value | as specified |
| Animation type | discrete |
Formal syntax
column-span =
none |
<integer [1,∞]> |
all |
auto
Examples
Making a heading span columns
In this example, the heading is made to span across all the columns of the article.
HTML
html
<article>
<h2>Header spanning all of the columns</h2>
<p>
The h2 should span all the columns. The rest of the text should be
distributed among the columns.
</p>
<p>
This is a bunch of text split into three columns using the CSS `columns`
property. The text is equally distributed over the columns.
</p>
<p>
This is a bunch of text split into three columns using the CSS `columns`
property. The text is equally distributed over the columns.
</p>
<p>
This is a bunch of text split into three columns using the CSS `columns`
property. The text is equally distributed over the columns.
</p>
<p>
This is a bunch of text split into three columns using the CSS `columns`
property. The text is equally distributed over the columns.
</p>
</article>
CSS
css
article {
columns: 3;
}
h2 {
column-span: all;
}
Result
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| CSS Multi-column Layout Module Level 1 # column-span |
Browser compatibility
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