column-fill: balance should do what you want, but this does not work in real browsers.
Maybe multicol is not suitable for you. Depending on what you are trying to do, maybe flexbox, or just an inline block can shorten it?
http://jsbin.com/nobosu/1/edit?css,output
Maybe this is a little closer to what you were trying to do: http://jsbin.com/nobosu/edit?html,css,output
Without specifics, itβs a little difficult to know what to write out.
Florian Rivoal
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