CSS | column-fill Property

Last Updated : 26 Apr, 2021

The column-fill property in CSS is used to specify whether the columns will be filled in a balanced manner or not.
Syntax:

column-fill: balance|auto|initial|inherit

Property Values:

balance: This is the default value for the property. This value fills each column with the same amount of content, but will not allow the columns to be taller than the height.
auto: This value fills each column until it reaches the height
initial:This value is used to set the column-fill property to its default value.
inherit: This value is used to inherits the column-fill property from its parent.

Example: To illustrate the auto value and balanced value for the column-fill property.

html

<DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <title>The column-fill Property</title>
    <style>
        div {
            -webkit-column-count: 3;
            -moz-column-count: 3;
            column-count: 3;
            height: 100px;
        }
         
        .gfg1 {
            -moz-column-fill: auto;
            column-fill: auto;
        }
         
        .gfg2 {
            -moz-column-fill: balance;
            column-fill: balance;
        }
         
        h1 {
            color: green;
        }
         
        h1,
        h2 {
            text-align: center;
        }
    </style>
</head>
 
<body>
 
    <h1>
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</h1>
    <h2>
    The column-fill Property
</h2>
 
    <h2>column-fill: auto:</h2>
    <div class="gfg1">
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    </div>
 
    <h2>column-fill: balance (default):</h2>
    <div class="gfg2">
        The course is designed for students
    as well as working professionals to
    prepare for coding interviews. This
    course is going to have coding questions
    from school level to the level needed for
    product based companies like Amazon,
    Microsoft, Adobe, etc
    </div>
</body>
 
</html>                   