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Asked: 2026-05-14T01:10:36+00:00

If I have a collection of div elements, I can use CSS to have

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If I have a collection of div elements, I can use CSS to have them flow across the page and overflow onto the next line.

Here’s a simple example:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Flowing Divs</title>
    <style type="text/css">
      .flow {
        float: left;
        margin: 4em 8em;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="container">
      <div class="flow">Div 1</div>
      <div class="flow">Div 2</div>
      <div class="flow">Div 3</div>
      <div class="flow">Div 4</div>
      <div class="flow">Div 5</div>
      <div class="flow">Div 6</div>
      <div class="flow">Div 7</div>
      <div class="flow">Div 8</div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Is it possible to have the divs flow down the page instead of across it, so that they would flow down columns not along lines, but still occupy the same space as they would if they flowed across?

So for the example above, if they flowed into two lines of four divs, could I get the first column to contain Div1 and Div2 instead of Div1 and Div5?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Quickly threw this together.: 

    #column1 {float:left}  
#column2 {float:left}  
div div{height:100px;width:100px;border:1px solid}

<div id="column1">    
      <div>1</div>  
      <div>2</div>  
</div>  
<div id="column2">  
      <div>3</div>  
      <div>4</div>  
</div>
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