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    copied!<p>I'm trying to place some divs, with this rule: Fill first column where possible, then (when first column is full) fill the second column, etc. (Please see the image below)</p> <p>This is what I want to have: (created with Paint!)</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/f2wUa.png" alt="Goal"></p> <p><strong>In the image above, as you can see, first column has 1,2,3,4 and there is not enough vertical space to put 5 in the first column. So 5 should be placed on the second column...</strong></p> <p>I've tried to create something like the image above using <code>float:left</code>, but this is the result:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4P9DP.png" alt="Current code"></p> <p>How to create something like the first image? What's wrong with my current code (which creates the second image)?</p> <hr> <p>This is my HTML code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="container"&gt; &lt;div class="i1"&gt;1&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="i1"&gt;2&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="i1"&gt;3&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="i1"&gt;4&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="i2"&gt;5&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="i3"&gt;6&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="i1"&gt;7&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="i1"&gt;8&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>​And this is my CSS:</p> <pre><code>.container { overflow:scroll; width:10000px; height:200px; background:skyblue; position:absolute; } .i1,.i2,.i3 { float:left; width:100px; background:lime; border-radius: 20px; text-align:center; } .i1 { height:33px; } .i2 { height:66px; } .i3 { height:100px; } </code></pre> <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/AQ7bp/1/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Fiddle of my code</a></p>
 

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