Recently I’ve been working on a project for a client that makes use of CSS3 columns in its layout design. The problem with CSS3 columns is that it’s not supported by any stable version of Internet Explorer so far (surprised? no? good!). At the time of this writing IE9 is the latest version.
Luckily there’s hope. The CSS3 Multi-column script helps render columns in browsers that do not have this capability. All you need to do is download the file and add it to your HTML after all your stylesheet declarations. It will read all your CSS3 column declarations and render the content accordingly.
The script uses some crossdomain ajax calls to work its magic, but IE8 does things differently. I’ve patched the library with the fixes needed for it to work correctly in IE8.
Download the patched CSS3 Multi-column script.
Thanks to Tobin Titus, Internet Explorer Performance Manager, who helped me track the bug down.
3 replies on “CSS3 columns in Internet Explorer and other unsupported browsers”
hi, thanks for sharing. However, our company still using IE8 and this patch doesn’t work now 🙁
Unfortunatly link doesn’t work .
I mind http://www.csscripting.com/css-multi-column/
The script still does not work on IE8.
Need to comment the following line of code:
elem.style.width = column_width.toString() + widthUnit;