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For the purpose of finding the number of auto-repeated tracks, the UA must floor the track size to a UA-specified value to avoid division by zero. It is suggested that this floor be 1px or less.
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In paged media, user agents may perform this calculation on a
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per-page basis.
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In fragmented contexts such as in paged media, user agents may perform this calculation on a
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per-fragment basis.
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The used value for 'column-count' is calculated without
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regard for explicit column breaks or constrained column heights,
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Content in the normal flow that appears before the
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element is automatically balanced across all columns in the immediately preceding column row before the
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element appears.
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The element [=establishes an independent formatting context=].
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The element establishes an independent <a>formatting context</a>.
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Note: Whether the element establishes a new <a>formatting context</a>
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does not depend on whether the element is a descendent of a multicol or not.
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</div>
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<div class="example">
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In paged media spanning elements are honored on all pages.
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In this example, the first three paragraphs have column breaks after them.
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In fragmented contexts spanning elements are honored in all fragments.
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In this example, we are in paged media, and the first three paragraphs have column breaks after them.
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An spanning <code>H2</code> element appears after the fourth paragraph.
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<dt><dfn>balance</dfn>
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<dd>
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Balance content equally between columns, as far as possible.
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In paged media, only the last page is balanced.
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In fragmented contexts, only the last fragment is balanced.
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<dt><dfn>balance-all</dfn>
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<dd>
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Balance content equally between columns, as far as possible.
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In paged media, all pages are balanced.
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In fragmented contexts, all fragments are balanced.
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<dt><dfn>auto</dfn>
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<dd>
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fill columns sequentially
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</dl>
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In continuous media, this property will only be consulted if the
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In continuous contexts, this property will only be consulted if the
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length of columns has been constrained. Otherwise, columns will
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automatically be balanced.
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In continuous media, this property does not have any effect when there are overflow columns.
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In continuous contexts, this property does not have any effect when there are overflow columns.
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In paged media, this property will only have
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effect on the last page the multicol container appears on.
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effect on the last fragment the multicol container appears in.
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<div class="example">
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<li>
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explicit column breaks. In this case, additional column boxes are
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created in the inline direction for continuous media, and
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additional column boxes are moved to the next page(s) for paged
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created in the inline direction for continuous contexts, and
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additional column boxes are moved to the next fragment(s) for fragmented
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media.
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</ul>
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Columns that appear outside the multicol container in continuous media
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Columns that appear outside the multicol container in continuous contexts
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<div class="example">
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<div class="example">
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In continuous media overflow columns can effect the height of the multicol container. In this example a column appears in the overflow which has four lines of text. The multicol container is made tall enough to accomodate this column.
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In continuous contexts overflow columns can effect the height of the multicol container. In this example a column appears in the overflow which has four lines of text. The multicol container is made tall enough to accomodate this column.
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<figure>
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<img src="images/overflow-column-effects-height.svg" alt="Four columns, overflow column is taller than the first three">
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In paged media, the overflow content goes into column on subsequent pages.
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In fragmented contexts, the overflow content goes into columns in subsequent fragments.
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Given the same content as in the previous example
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and a page box that only has room for five lines of formatted text,
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this would appear on the first page:
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<h3 id="changes-from-20171005">Changes from the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/WD-css-multicol-1-20171005/">Working Draft (WD) of 5 October 2017</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Changed references to paged media to refer to fragmented contexts. Resolved <a href="https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1746#issuecomment-380731574">12 Apr 2018</a>.</li>
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<li>Changed a line regarding the <code>column-fill</code> property:
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<br><em>In continuous media, this property does not have any effect in
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