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518518 See also
519519 < a href ="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Apr/0316.html "> this explanation</ a >
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524+ <p class="issue">
525+ This section is VERY experimental. Feedback is encouraged. Shipping implementations is not.
526+
522527 <p>For multi-column elements laid out with infinite available measure (see
523528 <a href="#orthogonal-multicol">Multi-column Layout in Orthogonal Flows</a>),
524529 the <i>min-content</i> extent is the extent that would result
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549554 of its contents.
550555
551556 <p>
552- The <i>max-content measure</i> of a multi-column element is calculated by:
557+ The <i>max-content measure</i> of a multi-column element
558+ with restrained-height columns (i.e. a specified <i>extent<i> or <i>max-extent</i>)
559+ is the <i>measure</i> that would exactly include all of its columns.
560+ It may be approximated by:
553561 <ul>
554562 <li>Laying out the element with column-spanning elements given 'display: none',
555563 and taking a measure that includes all the columns.
556- <li>Laying out the element, including column-spanning elements, into that resulting measure.
564+ <li>Laying out all of the column-spanning elements into that resulting measure,
565+ and taking the resulting extent.
566+ <li>Subtracting that resulting extent from the specified restraint,
567+ laying out the element without column-spanning elements again into this adjusted extent,
568+ and taking the measure of all its columns as its <i>max-content measure</i>.
569+ <p>
570+ or by some more accurate method.
571+
572+ <p class="note">
573+ This approximation can result in some slack, but avoids overflow in the most common cases,
574+ where the balanced height of the columns above spanning elements are approximately equal.
575+
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