columns CSS property

columns: 2;

columns: 6rem auto;

columns: 12em;

columns: 3;

<section id="default-example">
  <p id="example-element">
    London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in
    Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets
    as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it
    would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so,
    waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
  </p>
</section>

#example-element {
  min-width: 21rem;
  text-align: left;
}

/* Column width */
columns: 18em;

/* Column count */
columns: auto;
columns: 2;

/* Column width and count */
columns: 2 auto;
columns: auto 12em;
columns: auto auto;

/* Column width and/or count, and column height */
columns: 18em / 10em;
columns: 2 / 90vh;
columns: 2 auto / 300px;

/* Global values */
columns: inherit;
columns: initial;
columns: revert;
columns: revert-layer;
columns: unset;

<p class="content-box">
  This is a bunch of text split into three columns using the CSS
  <code>columns</code>
  property. The text is equally distributed over the columns.
</p>

body {
  width: 60%;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

.content-box {
  columns: 3 auto;
}

<p class="content-box">
  This is a bunch of text split into three columns using the CSS
  <code>columns</code> property. This includes a <code>column-count</code> value
  of <code>3</code>, a <code>column-width</code> value of <code>auto</code>, and
  a <code>column-height</code> value of <code>5em</code>. The
  <code>column-wrap</code> value is set to its initial value, <code>auto</code>;
  when a <code>column-height</code> value is included,
  <code>column-wrap: auto</code> resolves to <code>wrap</code>, which allows the
  columns to wrap onto multiple rows. The text is equally distributed over the
  columns, and placed into multiple rows.
</p>

.content-box {
  columns: 3 auto / 5em;
}

body {
  width: 60%;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

@supports not (columns: 3 auto / 5em) {
  body::before {
    content: "Your browser does not support the 'column-height' property.";
    background-color: wheat;
    position: fixed;
    inset: 40% 0;
    height: fit-content;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 1rem 0;
  }
}