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How to use CSS3 column-rule-width Property

column-rule-width is pretty new property in Cascading Style Sheet styling system Level 3. It’s used to create multicolumn module by a single line. I am gonna show you how o use column-rule-width.

How to use it:

<html>
<head>
    <style type="text/css">

        .multicolumn{
            columns: 180px 3;
            -moz-columns: 180px 3;
            -webkit-columns: 180px 3;
        }

    </style>
</head>
<body>

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</p>

</body>
</html>

You can also add some other properties like.

.multicolumn{
  columns: 180px 3;
  -moz-columns: 180px 3;
  -webkit-columns: 180px 3;

  column-rule-color: #ccc;
  -moz-column-rule-color: #ccc;
  -webkit-column-rule-color: #ccc;

  column-rule-style: solid;
  -moz-column-rule-style: solid;
  -webkit-column-rule-style: solid;
  }

This is really awesome properties of CSS3