Review document: https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/WD-css-multicol-1-20210212/
Editor's draft: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-multicol-1/
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Issue 1. # Summary: allow percentages for `column-gap` From: Chris Harvey Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1321 Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Feb/0572.html Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1321#issuecomment-298845182 Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1321#issuecomment-300548136
Issue 2. # Summary: definition of `column-span` should say what happens without an ancestor multicol From: David Baron Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1074 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1074#issuecomment-289172502 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1074#issuecomment-289882650 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1074#issuecomment-290106054 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2017Apr/0018.html
Issue 3. # Summary: definition of `column-span: all` repeats itself From: David Baron Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1073 Closed: Accepted Resolved: Bugfix
Issue 4. # Summary: Does 'column-span' work on tables? From: David Baron Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1071 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1071#issuecomment-284115806 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1071#issuecomment-284139730 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1071#issuecomment-284532508 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1071#issuecomment-287919103 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1071#issuecomment-289877175 Response: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1071#issuecomment-290150304 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2017Mar/0088.html
Issue 5. # Summary: minimum and preferred width of multicol is not defined From: François Remy Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/420 Response: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/420#issuecomment-253261529 Closed: Invalid Verified: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/420#issuecomment-253434545 Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2016Oct/0091.html
Issue 6. # Summary: Clarify that column-* properties only apply to block containers From: Sebastian Zartner Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1364 Response: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1364#issuecomment-310139377 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2017Jun/0028.html
Issue 7. # Summary: Clipping of content that overflows a column From: Chris Rebert Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/314 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/314#issuecomment-232662653 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/314#issuecomment-233462863 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/314#issuecomment-263801631 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/314#issuecomment-287126356 Response: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/314#issuecomment-310138645 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2017Jun/0028.html
Issue 8. # Summary: Remove concept of available width and have pseudo-algorithm depend on used width From: Simon Sapin Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Sep/0484.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Oct/0226.html Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Apr/0347.html Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Feb/0471.html
Issue 9. # Summary: References to Paged Media From: David Baron Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Mar/0043.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Mar/0046.html Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1746 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1746#issuecomment-380731574
Issue 10. # Summary: Intrinsic Sizing of Multicol Elements From Fantasai Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0333.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0344.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0346.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0478.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0482.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0483.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0487.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0505.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Mar/0526.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Apr/0008.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Apr/0009.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Apr/0010.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Apr/0225.html Closed: Deferred Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1742#issuecomment-342001345
Issue 11. # Summary: Should margins collapse on spanning elements From: Håkon Wium Lie Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Sep/0509.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Oct/0591.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0480.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0540.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0698.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0701.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0734.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Dec/0109.html Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Dec/0262.html
Issue 12. # Summary: Column rule drawing order From: Peter Salas Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jan/0251.html Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Feb/0363.html
Issue 13. # Summary: Text describing column boxes as block container boxes From: Anton Prowse Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Dec/0058.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jan/0392.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Apr/0338.html Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1738 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1738#issuecomment-342661881
Issue 14. # Summary: z-index and pseudo stacking contexts, column rules are painted in the inline content layer From: fantasai Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0546.html Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Feb/0363.html
Issue 15. # Summary: z-order of column rule and column scrolling From: Morten Stenshorne Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Sep/0777.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Sep/0006.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Sep/0777.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Oct/0241.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Oct/0242.html Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1739 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1739#issuecomment-342659978
Issue 16. # Summary: Remove Example XVII in CR From: Gérard Talbot Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jul/0498.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jul/0507.html Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1740 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1740#issuecomment-342662336
Issue 17. # Summary: Contradictions about whether zero is allowed for 'column-width' From: David Baron Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011May/0338.html Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1741 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1741#issuecomment-373091628
Issue 18. # Summary: Changed "Content in the normal flow" to "Floated or in-flow content" From: Håkon Wium Lie Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013May/0253.html Closed: Accepted Resolved: Editorial
Issue 19. # Summary: Revised pseudo-algorithm From: Bert Bos Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Apr/0347.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Apr/att-0225/tmp.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013May/0253.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jun/0629.html Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Feb/0471.html
Issue 20. # Summary: Properties columns, column-width, column-count "apply to block containers" Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Feb/0536.html Closed: Accepted Resolved: Editorial
Issue 21. # From: Gérard Talbot Summary: margin collapsing between column-spanning element and blocks in column boxes Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Sep/0356.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Sep/0510.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Oct/0247.html Closed: Accepted Resolved: Editorial
Issue 22. # From: Philippe Verdy Summary: break-* properties and non-paged media; "break-fill" property proposal for child elements Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Jan/0027.html Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1743 Closed: Deferred to multicol level 2 or fragmentation spec
Issue 23. # From: Robert O'Callahan Summary: Remove the restriction about overflow columns only being in continuous media in the statement that column-fill has no effect on overflow columns Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Dec/0455.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0274.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0304.html Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Sep/0471.html
Issue 24. # Summary: Have two keywords for balancing - "balance" and either "balance-last" or "balance-all", depending on what implementations (including Prince and AH) do by default. Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Sep/0471.html
Issue 25. # Summary: To balance columns, you just make the row as short as possible (honoring breaking controls, sizes, etc.), then flow normally into that height. No explicit "balancing" occurs (but it's a common effect). Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Sep/0471.html
Issue 26. # From: Håkon Wium Lie Summary: Can overflow content influence column height? Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Oct/0396.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Oct/0397.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Oct/0423.html Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1745 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1745#issuecomment-380745583
Issue 27. # From: Virgil Palanciuc Summary: Inconsistency with definition of column-rule-width Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Nov/0416.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Sep/0550.html Closed: Accepted Resolved: Editorial
Issue 28. # From: James Holderness Summary: Columns do not clip anything. (As if ::column just had overflow:visible by default.) Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Mar/0057.html Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Aug/0269.html Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Sep/0471.html
Issue 29. # From: Rachel Andrew Summary: Should reference to breaking values be removed from the introduction? Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1966 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1966#issuecomment-343537878 Closed: Accepted Resolved: Editorial
Issue 30. # From: Rachel Andrew Summary: Referring to the multicol element or container Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1965 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1965#issuecomment-343698710 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1965#issuecomment-346424523
Issue 31. # From: Dennis Heuer Summary: The examples in the specification are poorly made Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2018Jan/0037.html Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2018Jan/0048.html Closed: Rejected Resolved: Editors' discretion - duplicate issue since addressed.
Issue 32. # From: Dennis Heuer Summary: The design of the column-rule property is not good Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2018Jan/0039.html Response: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2018Jan/0051.html Closed: Rejected Resolved: Editors' discretion
Issue 33. # From: Manuel Rego Casasnovas Summary: Make "column-gap: normal" to be 1em in multi-column per spec Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2145 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2145#issuecomment-378781507
Issue 34. # From: David Baron Summary: column-span examples are unclear about visual/source order of text Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1087 Response: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1087#issuecomment-371343134 Closed: Accepted Resolved: Editors' discretion
Issue 35. # From: David Baron Summary: How do elements between column-span and its multicol ancestor appear around the span Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1072 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1072#issuecomment-287932460 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1072#issuecomment-342668025
Issue 36. # From: David Baron Summary: Specification should define interaction between 'column-span' and 'column-fill' Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1075 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1075#issuecomment-284141651 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1075#issuecomment-284536538 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1075#issuecomment-342669980
Issue 37. # From: David Baron Summary: Column rules should only be drawn to the height of the column contents Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2309 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2309#issuecomment-365873057 Closed: Rejected Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2309#issuecomment-380733360
Issue 38. # From: Sam Sneddon Summary: Pseudo-algorithm doesn't say when Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2488 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2488#issuecomment-377432504 Closed: Accepted Resolved: Editorial
Issue 39. # From: Fantasai Summary: Balancing and overflow columns Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2549 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2549#issuecomment-380753480
Issue 40. # From: David Baron Summary: How does absolute positioning work in a containing block that was split by a column-span? Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1894 Closed: Rejected as defined in Fragmentation spec Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1894#issuecomment-342673130
Issue 41. # From: Manuel Rego Casasnovas Summary: Gutter properties computed value Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2294 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2294#issuecomment-364321479 Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2294#issuecomment-364682807 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2294#issuecomment-369313438
Issue 42. # From: Fantasai Summary: Handling of zero sized tracks, changing the floor to a required amount Comment: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Dec/0157.html Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1719 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2016Jan/0031.html
Issue 43. # From: Praveen Puglia Summary: Something went wrong with the linking or code block? Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1850 Closed: Accepted Resolved: Editorial
Issue 44. # From: Masataka Yakura Summary: Paragraph saying count+width not making sense Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4291 Closed: Accepted Resolved: Editorial
Issue 45. # From: neerjapancholi Summary: Margin collapsing does not make sense with column-spans Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2203 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2203#issuecomment-431783027
Issue 46. # From: Morten Stenshorne Summary: Improve column-fill and make it backward-compatible Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3224 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3224#issuecomment-468089503
Issue 47. # From: Rachel Andrew Summary: column-gap length-percentage remove at-risk marker Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3988 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3988#issuecomment-498825630
Issue 48. # From: Rachel Andrew Summary: Should we refer to definition of column-gap in Box Alignment? Comments: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3641 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3641#issuecomment-498827184
Issue 49. # From: Benoît Rouleau Summary: Shouldn't column-fill: auto take min-height into account? Comments: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3064 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3064#issuecomment-475905338
Issue 50. # From: Rachel Andrew Summary: Introduction refers to tables for Layout Comments: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3654 Closed: Accepted Resolved: Editorial
Issue 51. # From: Rachel Andrew Summary: pseudo-algorithm refers to track size, terminology not used in the spec Comments: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3649 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3649#issuecomment-472505520
Issue 52. # From: Mats Palmgren Summary: box decorations on boxes fragmented by a column-span Comments: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3575 Closed: Accepted Resolved: Editorial
Issue 53. # From: Rachel Andrew Summary: What happens to the mbp of the empty fragment created by a spanner being first-child of an element Comments: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2552 Closed: Rejected Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2552#issuecomment-431781324
Issue 54. # From: David Baron Summary: column-fill should behave more similarly in paginated and continuous contexts Comments: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4036 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4036#issuecomment-531646703
Issue 55. # From: Rachel Andrew Summary: Defining what happens with column-fill in unconstrained containers for continuous and fragmented contexts Comments: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4689 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4689#issuecomment-621281467
Issue 56. # From: Gérard Talbot Summary: Improve column-fill example 26 and 27 Comments: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3700 Closed: Rejected as relevant example removed.
Issue 57. # From: Alison Maher Summary: Improve column-fill example 26 and 27 Comments: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5612 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2203#issuecomment-431783027
Issue 58. # From: Morten Stenshorne Summary: Should contained out-of-flow descendants affect column balancing? Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6279 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6279#issuecomment-839912199
Issue 59. # From: Morten Stenshorne Summary: Definition of adjacent spanners, when to create column boxes Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6265 Closed: Accepted Resolved: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6265#issuecomment-839909999
Issue 60. # From: Becky Gibson Summary: Request for a11y considerations section Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6283 Closed: Accepted Resolved: Editorial
Issue 61. # From: Richard Ishida Summary: Add example of columns in vertical text Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6301 Closed: Accepted Resolved: Editorial
Issue 62. # From: Gérard Talbot Summary: Correct figures 10, 11 and 15 to use H2 standard font-size and margins and make margin belt of H2 element transparent Comment: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2580 Closed: Rejected as images and examples have been updated in the spec since this was raised. Resolved: Editors' discretion