The W3C CSS Working Group has published the third public working draft of Multi-column layout in CSS. This proposal defines three groups of new properties to support multi-column layouts in CSS3. The first group sets the number and width of the columns:
column-count column-width columns Properties in the second group specify the amount of space and rules between columns:
column-gap column-rule column-rule-color column-rule-style column-rule-width The third group controls column breaks:
column-break-before column-break-after column-break-inside 
