Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-multicol] Do we need column-wrap as well as column-height (#11754)

Maybe it doesn't match with everyone's mental model of this, but there's essentially an implicit wrap between the two "A B" columns and the two "C D E F" columns, and between the two "C D E F" columns and the five "G H I J K" columns. Without these implicit wraps, there would be eleven columns next to each other on one row/line, like this, all in the first outer column:

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7f66fb07-b068-4cb4-b27e-72c8c841b1bc)

Yes exactly, no `column-height` in my example. I'm just pointing out that there's already some sort of wrapping as it is (and has been for years), and that sometimes it wraps (between the first and second column, and again between the second and third column), and sometimes it doesn't (if the block-size is constrained, like in the third outer column). But maybe that's an other kind of wrapping that shouldn't be controlled by `column-wrap`. Otherwise `column-wrap:auto` (initial value) would resolve to `nowrap` in my example, and result in the rendering shown above, in this comment - which would break existing implementations.

If we could explain lines and rows in the spec, and how they relate to each other, this might become a bit clearer.

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