CSS column-count

Long text divided into 2 columns with column-count.

<style>
  .columns {
    column-count: 2;
  }
</style>

<div class="columns">
  Claude Monet was raised in Le Havre,
  Normandy, and became interested in the
  outdoors and drawing from an early age.
  Although his mother, Louise-Justine
  Aubrée Monet, supported his ambitions
  to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe,
  disapproved and wanted him to pursue a
  career in business. He was very close to
  his mother, but she died in January 1857
  when he was sixteen years old, and he was
  sent to live with his childless, widowed
  but wealthy aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre.
  He went on to study at the Académie Suisse,
  and under the academic history painter
  Charles Gleyre, where he was a classmate
  of Auguste Renoir. His early works include
  landscapes, seascapes, and portraits, but
  attracted little attention. A key early
  influence was Eugène Boudin who introduced
  him to the concept of plein air painting.
  From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, also
  in northern France, where he purchased a
  house and property and began a vast
  landscaping project, including a
  water-lily pond.
</div>

column-count: number | auto | initial | inherit;

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<style>
  .article {
    column-count: 3;
  }
</style>

<div class="article">
  Claude Monet was raised in Le Havre,
  Normandy, and became interested in the
  outdoors and drawing from an early age.
  Although his mother, Louise-Justine
  Aubrée Monet, supported his ambitions
  to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe,
  disapproved and wanted him to pursue a
  career in business. He was very close to
  his mother, but she died in January 1857
  when he was sixteen years old, and he was
  sent to live with his childless, widowed
  but wealthy aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre.
  He went on to study at the Académie Suisse,
  and under the academic history painter
  Charles Gleyre, where he was a classmate
  of Auguste Renoir. His early works include
  landscapes, seascapes, and portraits, but
  attracted little attention. A key early
  influence was Eugène Boudin who introduced
  him to the concept of plein air painting.
  From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, also
  in northern France, where he purchased a
  house and property and began a vast
  landscaping project, including a
  water-lily pond.
</div>

This table shows when column-count support started for each browser.

Chrome	50.0	Apr 2016
Firefox	52.0	Mar 2017
IE/Edge	10.0	Sep 2012
Opera	37.0	May 2016
Safari	9.0	Sep 2015

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