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Creating columns within longer documents

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Creating columns within longer documents

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- [Instructor] If you take a look at the exercise files for this video, drop it in a browser, and then go on ahead and pull up a print preview here. You'll notice that I have taken out the page break from the previous video. And because I'd like to look at something else, another way that we could address this problem of this box that splits over a couple of pages the way it does here. So we could probably shorten up this text that's up here on the top of the page using CSS columns. So CSS columns are a property that are useful for both screen and print media. And if you're really happy with the way your screen is looking maybe it's just something you want to apply to print. Maybe you want to have columns for print, but not on the screen itself. So let me show you how the columns work. It's a really fast thing to apply and then you'll see the impact here in the printed area. So go ahead and cancel out of that and we'll…

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