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		DiggyJohnson on Jan 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Explore Wikipedia's New Look I find multicolumn on digital screens especially in the browser to seem very clunky. And with an arbitrary article length, multicol would require pagination, right?

geokon on Jan 19, 2023 [–]

Do you have any examples?

I see some examples on MDN:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layou...

I imagine there are a few ways to do it. I'd just have columns break at section headers. It'd also jive well with the wiki pic/quick-info right hand sidebar that's common

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