CSS | column-fill Property

Last Updated : 08 Aug, 2019

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.

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> 
    GeeksforGeeks 
</h1> 
    <h2> 
    The column-fill Property 
</h2> 
  
    <h2>column-fill: auto:</h2> 
    <div class="gfg1"> 
        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 Amazom, 
    Microsoft, Adobe, etc. 
    </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 Amazom, 
    Microsoft, Adobe, etc 
    </div> 
</body> 
  
</html>                     

Output:

Supported Browsers: The browsers supported by CSS | column-fill Property are listed below:

Google Chrome 50.0, 4.0 -webkit-
Internet Explorer 10.0
Firefox 52.0, 2.0 -moz-
Opera 37.0, 15.0 -webkit-, 11.1
Safari 9.0, 3.1 -webkit-

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