Transfer overflow from one div to another

Question

Situation: I have two fixed-height divs, overflow set to hidden on both, and dynamic text content within the first div. Should that content exceed the overflow boundaries of

Answer 1

CSS3 supports this kind of columnar flow via its Multi-column Layout Module. Caniuse.com shows that it isn't supported around the board though.

Here's a Quirksmode.com article showing how it's used.