|  | Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 11/03/07 23:37 
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed dorayme<doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> writing in
 news:doraymeRidThis-079A31.10290604112007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au:
 
 > In article <Xns99DDA01D8AFBFarbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121>,
 >  Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> wrote:
 >
 >> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Ciaran <cronoklee@hotmail.com>
 >> writing in
 >> news:1194092263.454782.316970@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com:
 >>
 >> > Hi,
 >> > I have a very long dynamically generated bulleted list and I'd like
 >> > to make it display in columns rather than down the left and side of
 >> > the page. I know columns aren't available till CSS 3 but I was
 >> > wondering if there's some current cross browser trick or hack that
 >> > might work for me?
 >> >
 >> > Cheers
 >> > Ciarαn
 >> >
 >>
 >> Server side - get the total items and divide by two.  Then loop
 >> through and when you reach that amount, end the list and start
 >> another.  Float the ul element.
 >
 > When you reach what amount?
 >
 
 For example, say there are 20 items in a table.  Run the query, get the
 recordset, and the count of items in the recordset.  Put the recordset
 into an array.  Close the record set.
 
 total_items = 20
 breaknow = total_items/2
 
 loop though the array until you reach breaknow then end the list and
 start another.  If the total is not an even number, then the last list
 will have one extra item.
 
 
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