tedster - 5:32 am on Nov 5, 2011 (gmt 0)

CSS3 is the first time this long-standing challenge has been addressed. New properties, column-count, column-width and column-gap, work together to generate the solution.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS3_Columns (Using CSS multi-column layouts) for details and to see live examples you can use to test browser support.