Question

this problem has been bothering me for some time. So I have created some visual descriptions of my problem

First here is my HTML structure I have 6 divs.. the first 3 float left and the last 3 float right. The last image shows the result I want but can’t seem to get. Can someone out there help me here

EDIT// Sorry heres my HTML and CSS

<style>
    .left { float:left; }
    .right { float:right; }
</style>
<div id="container">
   <div class="left"></div>
   <div class="left"></div>
   <div class="left"></div>
   <div class="right"></div>
   <div class="right"></div>
   <div class="right"></div>
</div>

NOTE: I Cant do a left right left right left right option because Im getting my data from PHP via a Query to my database.. first query goes left second query goes right…. thanks a bunch

/EDIT

My floats result in this

This is what I want

Answer 1

You can use CSS3 column-count property for this. Write like this:

.parent{
    -moz-column-count: 2;
    -moz-column-gap: 50%;
    -webkit-column-count: 2;
    -webkit-column-gap: 50%;
    column-count: 2;
    column-gap: 50%;
}
.parent div{
    width:50px;
    height:50px;  
    margin:10px;
}
.left{
    background:red;
}
.right{
    background:green;
}

Check this http://jsfiddle.net/UaFFP/6/