731516 - Multicolumn is broken in http://platform.html5.org/

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Regression window: 2011-12-26-03-10-02 -- 2011-12-27-03-10-15
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=9f29daaecbcc&tochange=6f4f2e53694b
Bug 695222 seems the most likely cause.

Comment 2

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

roc - can you find somebody to take a look at this regression in FF12? Thanks!

Comment 3

[Scott Johnson (:jwir3)]

I can take it, since it appears to be a regression due to my implementation of bug 695222.

Comment 4

[Scott Johnson (:jwir3)]

Actually, I don't think this is a regression in our code. It's simply that the definition for 'column-fill' changed in the spec. It used to affect only containers that were height-limited, but now it affects all column elements. 

Long story short, in order to get the previous behavior back, the website needs to set 'column-fill: balance' instead of 'column-fill: auto' in its CSS. The reference for this change is here:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jan/0393.html

Comment 5

[Scott Johnson (:jwir3)]

(In reply to Scott Johnson (:jwir3) from comment #4)
> Actually, I don't think this is a regression in our code. It's simply that
> the definition for 'column-fill' changed in the spec. It used to affect only
> containers that were height-limited, but now it affects all column elements. 
> 
> Long story short, in order to get the previous behavior back, the website
> needs to set 'column-fill: balance' instead of 'column-fill: auto' in its
> CSS. The reference for this change is here:
> 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jan/0393.html

When I said 'column-fill', I actually meant the prefixed version, '-moz-column-fill'.

Comment 6

[j.j.]

Please move thous bugs to "Tech Evangelism" and try to contact the webmaster.

Comment 7

[Michael[tm] Smith [:sideshowbarker]]

(In reply to j.j. (inactive in 2012) from comment #6)
> Please move thous bugs to "Tech Evangelism" and try to contact the webmaster.

I'm the webmaster for platform.html5.org so no need for evangelism team to contact me :-) I've already made the fix, based on the info from Scott (thanks Scott!).