Re: [css3-multicol] overflow inside multicol elements

> Has anyone got any actual use-cases for vertical relative positioning in
> multicol? The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is 
> adjusting
> vertical positioning within a line, i.e. some kind of 
> superscript/subscript
> hack, and for that use-case you definitely don't want the positioned stuff
> to move to the next column.


A while back we had a client that wanted a layout for their magazine that 
consisted of a number of article snippets, each having a heading and a bunch 
of paragraphs. The idea was that each snippet would start in a new column, 
and the heading would be pulled up out of the column flow.

The plan was to use a relative position to move the heading up, and add a 
negative bottom margin to pull up the following paragraphs.

At the time I don't think we had working column breaks, so it was probably 
more complicated than that, but that was the general idea.

I believe in the end we just gave up on that layout and left the headings 
inline.

Regards
James