<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>CSS Multi-column Layout Test: column width becomes wider to fill available space</title> <link rel="author" title="Hakon Wium Lie" href="mailto:howcome@opera.com"> <link rel="reviewer" title="Gérard Talbot" href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/"> <!-- 2013-08-25 --> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/#cw" title="3.1 'column-width'"> <link rel="match" href="reference/multicol-reduce-000-ref.htm"> <meta name="flags" content="ahem"> <meta name="assert" content="This test checks that column width is increased to fill the available space: in this test, there are only 2 column boxes."> <style type="text/css"> div#test, div#reference { background-color: yellow; border: black solid thin; color: orange; font: 1.25em/1 Ahem; margin-bottom: 0.5em; width: 30em; } div#test { column-gap: 0; column-width: 201px; /* N == max(1, floor((U + column-gap)/(column-width + column-gap))) N == max(1, floor((600px + 0px)/(201px + 0))) N == max(1, floor(600px/201px)) N == max(1, floor(2.985)) N == max(1, 2) N == 2; W == max(0, ((U + column-gap)/N - column-gap)) W == max(0, ((600px + 0px)/2 - 0px)) W == max(0, ((600px)/2 - 0px)) W == max(0, (300px - 0px)) W == max(0, 300px) W == 300px; */ } span {color: blue;} </style> </head> <body> <p>Test passes if the 2 rectangles with orange and blue vertical stripes are <strong>identical</strong>.</p> <div id="test"> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 <span>A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P</span> </div> <div id="reference"> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8<span>A B C D E F G H </span><br> 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6<span>I J K L M N O P </span> </div> </body> </html>