Automatic two columns with CSS or JavaScript

Question

I\'m currently developing a website and my client wants the text of various articles to overflow into two columns. Kind of like in a newspaper? So it would look like:

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Answer 1

First off, i don't think just css can do that, but i would love to be proven wrong.

Second, just counting paragraphs won't help you at all, you need at least all the heights and calculate the middle of the text height based on that, but you'd have to account for window resizing etc. I don't think there is a reasonably simple off the shelf solution. Unfortunately i'm pessimistic about finding a perfect solution to this problem, But it is an interesting one.