multicol equiv for print

multicol was a netscape tag for multi columns.. can it be simulated?

[broniusm]

I've got a lookup utility which needs to replace a multi-column printed excel file. On screen, the data can appear however it wants, but inevitably, the user will want to print this list again (..users.. :¦ ), and inevitably, the user will complain when the doc they print no longer fits onto a single page.

I've done my homework here on WebmasterWorld, and I already know that MULTICOL is a netscape-only tag and that there was a lot of "Why would you even want to do that on the web?" talk. There's also a draft css3 to handle this.

Has anyone successfully implemented a multicolumn script or html solution he or she'd like to share?

[jatar_k]

it doesn't look like anyone has done this broniusm or maybe they don't quite get it

I don't really know what multicol does so I am not totally sure what it is you want to simulate

[BjarneDM]

the css3 multicolumn functionality has been partially implemented in Mozilla/Firefox : [#*$!.com...]

[broniusm]

A fellow wemasterworldian here, dcrombie [webmasterworld.com], has sticky-mailed me a url to a great solution! A super simple php script that takes in text and distributes among x-number of array elements which can then of course be put on screen in TDs or DIVs however you like it.

Sticky mail me or dcrombie for the url.