Splitting text into columns

As far as I know there is no easy way to split a text block into
multiple columns on a webpage. Is there any sort of Ruby plugin that
has this functionality? So you can specify the size of a column and
have the plugin calculate how much text fits into each column based on
text sizes etc?

Best regards
Sebastian

I am not sure if this would be of any help in your situation, but
there is CSS 3 multi column display which is up and coming and Firefox
has an early implementation (-moz-column-count) that works quite
well.

See CSS columns - desktop

i use this in an intranet application where i can insist on Firefox as
the browser of choice.

tonypm

Thanks tonypm.
Yes, I have heard about the CSS 3 version. I hope it doesn’t take to
long before it gets widely implemented.

I found a javascript version here in case anybody else needs to
implement multiple columns before CSS 3:

Best regards
Sebastian