Split unordered list into 2 columns

HTML & CSS
1

I don’t know if this has been asked before and I can’t find anything useful online, but is there a way I can split an unordered list into 2 columns?

The purpose of this is, I have a list of validation errors and if there are a lot of errors, the list can be quite long as well as half the page is empty. I would like to save page space and make it look tidier.

2

Easy

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Sexy</title>
<style type="text/css">
*{margin:0;padding:0;}
ul{width:300px;list-style:none;}
li{float:left;width:150px;background:red;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li>safas 1</li>
<li>safas 2</li>
<li>safas 3</li>
<li>safas 4</li>
<li>safas 5</li>
<li>safas 6</li>
<li>safas 7</li>
<li>safas 8</li>
<li>safas 9</li>
<li>safas 10</li>
<li>safas 11</li>
<li>safas 12</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

Also I should note that this is being introduced into CSS3

3

If you don’t care that the items are listed left to right on each line, you can make them have a fixed width and float them left. Depending on the width of the items and your container for them, you can have 2 or 3 (or more) per row. How are these list items being created? If the page is created dynamically it might be a bit harder.

4

Yes…as I posted.

I just did a thourough test of the multi column layout to see if any browsers supported it

None do so you are stuck with this…

5

When testing draft or experimental properties, you need to test for vendor prefix versions. For flowed columns, support is incomplete, but Gecko (-moz-) and Webkit (-khtml-) have implemented the basics. The Webkit engine drops the list markers for some reason (Safari/Win v 3.5 and 4b).

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xml:lang="en"
      xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      lang="en">
<head>
  <meta name="generator"
        content=
        "HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 7 December 2008), see www.w3.org" />

  <title>Flowed columns</title>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type"
        content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <meta name="author"
        content="Gary Turner" />
  <style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/
  ul, ol {
    -ms-column-count: 2;
    -o-column-count: 2;
    -moz-column-count: 2;
    -khtml-column-count: 2;
    column-count: 2;
    }
  /*]]>*/
  </style>
</head>

<body>
  <ul>
    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>
  </ul>

  <ol>
    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>

    <li>item</li>
  </ol>

</body>
</html>

cheers,

gary

6

I can’t believe I forgot to put that in lolz.