Title: On Columns
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# On Columns

 *  Resolved [mythusmage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mythusmage/)
 * (@mythusmage)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/on-columns/)
 * There is one thing I’ve noticed about how columns are done using the plugin; 
   doesn’t really work as the columns in word processors and DTP apps do. My suggestion…
 * Along with the number of columns, the user gets to set the height of the columns
   in lines. So if there are three columns set to a height of 20 lines, then that
   is how many lines can be entered into a particular column. Additional lines are
   then placed in the first column to the right, and all formatting is carried over
   to the current column.
 * Only when the right most column is full, and more material is added, do the columns
   expand to accommodate it.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-builder-sandwich/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-builder-sandwich/)

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 *  [Benjamin Intal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bfintal/)
 * (@bfintal)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/on-columns/#post-6058185)
 * Hi, the intention of Sandwich with regards to columns was not to create word 
   processor-like columns. Creating something like that currently would isn’t possible
   without the use of hackish javascript methods in the frontend since the “correct”
   way of doing it isn’t yet widely supported by browsers. See [http://caniuse.com/#feat=multicolumn](http://caniuse.com/#feat=multicolumn)
 * Instead, it is meant to behave, be a replacement of and visually represent column
   shortcodes (those that you need to type [one_half] and [one_half_last], [two_thirds],
   and so on).
 *  Thread Starter [mythusmage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mythusmage/)
 * (@mythusmage)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/on-columns/#post-6058276)
 * Which all means it would be difficult, not impossible. And if you happen to be
   the fellows how craft the javascript for it, think of the advantage you’d get.
 *  Thread Starter [mythusmage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mythusmage/)
 * (@mythusmage)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/on-columns/#post-6058307)
 * In Addition
 * [I found this page](http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/) on doing text columns
   using CSS3. You do have to apply prefixes, but that shouldn’t be hard.

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 * Last reply from: [mythusmage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mythusmage/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/on-columns/#post-6058307)
 * Status: resolved