{"id":7665,"date":"2021-08-10T02:17:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T02:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/?p=7665"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:34:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:34:30","slug":"how-to-use-columns-property-in-css","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/how-to-use-columns-property-in-css\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use Columns Property in CSS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This property is used to define columns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>column-count<\/li><li>column-width<\/li><li>columns<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<script src=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/ajcotocus\/a4e6f1291b33446d94470628d43f9fa7.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"858\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-68.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-68.png 858w, https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-68-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-68-768x232.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>column-count<\/strong>&#8211;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This property is used to specify the number of columns an element should be divided into. 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We can set this property to <em>length<\/em> or <em>auto <\/em>(default).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ex:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\ndiv { \n\tcolumn-count: 2;\n\tcolumn-width: 100px;\n} \ndiv { \n\tcolumn-width: 200px;\n} \n\n\n\n\n<script src=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/ajcotocus\/768829a695f9f567b3af736cd4243aa6.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"848\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-70.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-70.png 848w, https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-70-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-70-768x279.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>columns<\/strong>&#8211;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is shorthand which is used to set column-width and column-count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Syntax: &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Selector { columns: column-width column-count;}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ex:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">div { columns: 200px 2;}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This property is used to define columns. column-count column-width columns column-count&#8211; This property is used to specify the number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[6159,6160,6161,4459,5310],"class_list":["post-7665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-css","tag-column-count","tag-column-width","tag-columns","tag-html","tag-property"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to use Columns Property in CSS? 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