column-rule-width 6v1r6d
The column-rule-width property is used to set the width of the multi-column layout. 3irx
A column rule is kind of like a border that you can add to separate adjacent columns in the same multi-column layout. It can even have styles like those a border can have, and the same width values. See the values section below for a list of possible values.
A column rule is drawn only between adjacent columns; that is, it is not drawn before the first column, nor is it drawn after the last column.
A column rule does not take up any space. This means that adding a column rule will not increase the amount of space, or the column-gap
), between the columns.
Official Syntax 52n3v
- Syntax:
column-rule-width: <length> | thin | medium | thick
- Initial: medium
- Applies To: multi-column elements
- Animatable: yes, as a length
Values 6u6u2p
- <length>
-
The width of the column rule is set to the specified length. See the
<length>
entry for a list of possible values. Negative values are not allowed. - thin
- A thin column rule. Implementation-specific. See note below and the live demo for examples.
- medium
- A medium column rule. Implementation-specific. See note below and the live demo for examples.
- thick
- A thick column rule. Implementation-specific. See note below and the live demo for examples.
Notes 3g6b1p
The specification doesn’t precisely define the thickness of each of the keywords, which is therefore implementation specific, but the values are constant throughout a document and thin ? medium ? thick. A browser could, for example, make the thickness depend on the medium
font size: one choice might be 1px (for thin
), 3px (for medium
) & 5px (for thick
) when the medium
font size is 17px or less.
Examples 2w2wp
The following will apply a pink-colored thin column rule to a multi-column element:
.mag { columns: 12em; column-rule-width: thin; column-rule-style: solid; column-rule-color: #0098D8; }
The following are all possible column-rule-width
values:
column-rule-width: 5px; column-rule-width: 10%; column-rule-width: thick; column-rule-width: 2em;
Live Demo 163835
Change the column rule width in the following demo to see how it is drawn. You should also notice how, no matter how thin or thick the rule gets, it does not affect the space between the columns specified using the column-gap
property.
Browser 3n3564
CSS3 Multiple column layout 524c6v
Method of flowing information in multiple columns
W3C Candidate Recommendation
ed from the following versions:
Desktop 5i6y2c
- 50
- 52
- 10
- 11
- 10
Mobile / Tablet 53b3r
- 10
- 66
- all
- 66
- 60