what i'm looking to do, is something akin to text-box wrapping in photoshop/illustrator/other, where you can write one paragraph, but if you "spill over" it will jump to another text box as if it's filling out that one.

I'm ideally looking for a way to do this with no javaScript, using only html/css if possible, or at least know this isn't possible and that i should move onto other prospects.

visual example of what i mean: https://imgur.com/uEt7Ckq

i tried every property of css text wrapping that i seen, along with web crawling but i haven't been able to see anything like what i'm looking for.

CodePudding user response：

You can set number of words seen to stop going out of the box (classic "Read more") but doubt you can do this with just html/css.

Ofc I could be wrong but see no way to html or css communicate, cut content on specific condition and jump in next div on their own.

CodePudding user response：

I was suggested a way that is close enough elsewhere, and I'm posting here to help anyone else who might need it, a free floating one does not seem to exist, however, the column-(x) properties seem to be the best option.

think to some documentation here: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_multiple_columns.asp

the way i implemented it was to assign a class to it that is self descriptive (threeColumnDiv in this case), which i will use any time i need to.

another thing which seems like maybe ideal is the grid-row properties (reference: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_grid-row.php.

If there's anything else desired, it seems you will have to do it in a custom manner, but i feel like those edge cases are rare enough it should not be a big deal.

Thanks for everyone's responces and help in the matter!