lucy24 - 2:18 am on Nov 5, 2011 (gmt 0)

Blast. I read this question just before I had to go out, and was really hoping someone would come up with a brilliant solution because I've got a similar problem with indexes. I mean lists of words, not index.html files ;) I thought of some stuff to try but it didn't work as hoped.

I assume you've got something involving {display: inline-block} with a width set as a percentage of the total, and then paragraphs inside of it.

My highest hopes involved setting the column div to a forced height (in ems or percentage, tried both) so it would wrap vertically in exactly the same way that a series of boxes will wrap horizontally if there's not enough room for them. But this just made the columnar div crash over the following text. Phooey.

I did find one permutation that wrapped automatically-- but it lined up the paragraphs in sets of three from left to right, which is not what either of us wants :(