Chrome adds an extra space to its container when using column-count

Question

The problem is, in chrome extra space is added between the bottom of the lowest blue box and the bottom of the container. so far a found no way to fix this. works fine in Firefox.

.outer {
    -webkit-column-count: 3;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    background:orange;
    border:1px solid black;
}

.outer div {
    -webkit-column-break-inside:avoid;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    background:lightblue;
    border:1px solid black;
}

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
<body>

<div class="outer">

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</div>

</body>
</html>

Any ideas?

https://jsfiddle.net/t8nkpkm7/

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 23 '15 at 13:53

This seems related to https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=297782

I don't see a CSS solution to this, but I've come up with a JavaScript solution:

var outer= document.querySelectorAll('.outer > div'),
    btm= 0;

[].forEach.call(outer, function(obj) {
  btm= Math.max(btm, obj.offsetTop + obj.offsetHeight);
});

document.querySelector('.outer').style.height= btm + 'px';

This iterates through all of .outer's children divs to determine the lowest coordinate, which is used to set the height of .outer.

Working Fiddle

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 02 '17 at 21:01

I've been working around this for the last two days and I might have found the solution for this issue (at least in Chrome, where I have noticed the problem):

I try to emulate a sort of "Pinterest" style for the products page in my business web site by working with columns and adding a box-shadow to the div that wraps the info of each product. When I did this, I realized that the div with the greater height missed the shadow in the bottom portion of it (css overflow: hidden; maybe?).

Searching here, I found that adding an outer container with a border: 5px solid transparent; which wraps the div with the missing shadow will create a sort of "safe zone" where the shadow can be correctly shown. This tip "as-is" didn't solve the problem, but with a little tweaking in the CSS attribute brake-inside: avoid; of that wrap, and with no border at all, the shadow was correctly shown. As a side effect, when I make this modification to each product div, the extra space below the last one disappears!!! I didn't do any more testing regarding this solution as this just works for me. Therefore, anyone who wants to improve this method is welcome to. Here is a sample of the code:

HTML

<div class="card-container">
<!--Card starting point-->
<div class="safe-area">
    <div class="floating-card">
        <div class="floating-card-header card-item-4"></div>
        <div class="floating-card-body">
            <div class="floating-card-title">
                <h3>Title</h3>
            </div>
            <div class="floating-card-content">
                <p class="smaller">Content Text</p>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="floating-card-footer">
            <div class="thin-line"></div>
            <a href="" class="btn btn-info">Action</a>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<!--Card ending point-->
</div>

CSS

.card-container{
    -webkit-column-count: 2;
    -webkit-column-gap: 20px;
    -moz-column-gap: 20px;
    -o-column-gap: 20px;
    column-gap: 20px;
    -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
    -moz-page-break-inside: avoid; /* Firefox */
    break-inside: avoid; /* IE 10+ */
 }

.floating-card{
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    border-width: 0px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-radius: 5px;
    background-color: white;
    box-shadow: 0px 3px 4px #aaa;
    -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
    -moz-page-break-inside: avoid; /* Firefox */
    break-inside: avoid; /* IE 10+ */
}

.safe-area{
    -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; /* Chrome, Safari, Opera */
    -moz-page-break-inside: avoid; /* Firefox */
    break-inside: avoid; /* IE 10+ */
}

.floating-card p.smaller{
    font-size: medium !important;
}

.floating-card-header{
    background-size: cover;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    border-radius: 5px 5px 0 0;
    height: 25vh;
}

.floating-card-body, .floating-card-footer{
    margin: 0px 10px;
}

.floating-card-title h3{
    font-weight: bold;
}

.floating-card-footer > a{
    margin: 3% 25%;
    width: 50%;
}

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 08 '22 at 15:45

0

Not an elegant solution, but adding an empty paragraph to the end of the two-column div solved this problem for me.

answered Apr 08 '22 at 15:45

szanyi

1

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Chrome adds an extra space to its container when using column-count

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