I'm not sure a better way to explain this except to possibly look at a site like craigslist or something.
What it does now -
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What I want -
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I made a fiddle but of course I can't get the overflow to do what I want. Any idears? Applying overflow: auto; just gives it a scroll bar when it hits max-height, is there anything to allow to it go to the next column?