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MultiColumn

Questions answered by this recipe

• I want the text on my page to flow in newspaper-like columns without me having to break it up. How can I do that?

Description

Allow text to flow into multiple columns.

Installation

1. Download multicolumn.zipΔ
2. Place cookbook/multicolumn.php in your cookbook directory and pub/multicolumn/multicolumn.js in your pub directory in the appropriately named sub-directory.
3. Include the following line in your local/config.php

include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/multicolumn.php");

Notes

Before the text that you want columnized, put (:startcolumn [OPTIONS]:) and after the text put (:endcolumn:).

Valid [OPTIONS] include the following:

• columns=n
  • unset: calculate number of columns based on minimum width. n>0: use specified number of columns, always adapt width.
• minheight=n
  • Minimum height of a column
• minsplitheight=n
  • If the base column is smaller than minSplitHeight, the column does not split.
• extraheight=n
  • Add extra height to a column. Increase this if the last column 'sticks out' too much.
• readontext="text"
  • Add the "read on" notice at the bottom of each column

For example:

(:startcolumn columns=3 readontext="Continue >>":)
this section of text will flow into 3 columns -- well, at least it would if there were 
enough text to make it go into 3 columns.  The problem is I'm too lazy to type any more text.
(:endcolumn:)

Release notes

• 2010-12-16B Installation flub-up fixed.
• 2010-12-16 Initial release.

See also

Contributors

• This recipe uses a script by Randy Simons. broken link

Comments

See discussion at MultiColumn-Talk?