How to have the text to flow evenly on two columns in Confluence?

[Roberto Saltini]

I know about the possibility to create a 2 column section in Confluence.

However, what I am after is something different. I would like the text to be evenly spread across 2 columns.

Something similar to the way text is organised in newspaper articles.

Thanks

[Milo Test]

It's no coincidence that you mentioned newspaper articles. There is a CSS style known as "newspaper."

Just add the div macro, put your text in the body and set the Styles field of the macro to:

-webkit-column-count: 2; /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */     -moz-column-count: 2; /* Firefox */     column-count: 2

Change the "column-count" numbers if you want more columns.

[Admin2]

Hi Milo - thanks for posting that! I have just tried what you suggested and it works well for me in Chrome, but the formatting seems a bit uneven at times if I view the same page using Internet Explorer. Is there a way of making this work better with IE?

[Milo Test]

IE does not have multi-column support; just another reason Atlassian announced EoS for IE 10. 

[Admin2]

Thanks for that Milo. As we are required to ensure that our content displays correctly in IE, that means that I may have to give up on this, unfortunately.