colbegin and colend

To create columns in an article one may use and . Note that this is not supported by Internet Explorer version 9 and below or Opera version 11 and below — see for details. To illustrate the use of these templates, this example uses the template to generate Lorem ipsum placeholder text.

produces:

You can also use , , and . But don't use this variety to set numbered or bulleted lists in columns, because breaks the list up, which is a problem for accessibility.

As such:

creates

CSS

MediaWiki:Common.css defines the following styles:

• "div.columns-2", "div.columns-3", "div.columns-4" and "div.columns-5" which need to contain a "div.column"

Templates

• and – utilizes CSS3 features

• – defines CSS classes (see above)

• – uses an HTML table (also adds a MULTICOL attribute)

• – uses CSS3

• – uses CSS3

CSS3 multicolumn support

The templates and use a feature in CSS3 that is implemented in:

• Gecko-based browsers, such as Firefox 1.5

• Presto-based browsers, such as Opera 11.1

• WebKit-based browsers, such as Safari (web browser) 3 and Google Chrome 1

• MSHTML-based browsers, such as Internet Explorer 10

See also

• Help:Tables

• mw:Help:Tables on MediaWiki

• Template:Columns-list