Columns

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Volker Koenigsbuescher

Feb 5, 2017

Number of columns

Proposals
- make it configurable by website, e.g.: for Wikipedia another column widt than for CNN. Also, if Columns is switched on or off for a specific site
- make options and the help text more understandable. I didn't bring it to work e.g. for Wikipedia to switch it to two columns with more than 6 lines per block, just nothing I tried seemed to work.

Daniel Unterberger

Feb 4, 2015

How to change number of columns ?

Go into options of the extension and change the -webkit-column-width: .., it will change the number of columns according to the available space. don't forget to set the "use user-style" to 1, so it will used, else it uses the default stylesheet.

Joel Schmidt

Jul 26, 2014

Options ignored; CSS class; and Hyphenator!

Hi,

thanks for your Columns extension, it is quite good (and actually the best one I found for this purpose), however the styles I change in the options (including the ones in the extra field for column width) are completely ignored (I prefer my columns in the original font and about 400px wide).
That's not much of a problem since I can still overwrite the styles for Columns by using Stylish, but I think Columns should work on its own.

In addition I would suggest to use a CSS classname that is less prone to collisions; "columns" is certainly used by a lot of developers or even CSS frameworks as a standard class for a distinct purpose that is not necessarily compatible with yours.
Even "Columns-columns" would probably suffice.

Now this is how you could make this extension really awesome: Add an option to include Hyphenator!
https://code.google.com/p/hyphenator
That way the columns can be set to justified alignment and the text can be hyphenated, which is especially useful for narrow columns such as your default 220px ones.
If I want to use Hyphenator now I have to employ a bookmark or Tampermonkey, both of which I'd rather not do all the time; furthermore it hyphenates the whole page, but you could add another option that would limit hyphenation to the columns created by your extension (since you can pass a parameter to Hyphenator telling it to look for your CSS class only).

Hope you like the ideas. Keep up the good work!

Regards,
J. Schmidt