html - CSS columns breaking when printing

Question

.class {    -webkit-column-count: 4;
    -webkit-column-gap: 0.25in;
    -webkit-column-rule-width : 1px;
    -webkit-column-rule-style : solid;
    -webkit-column-rule-color : #eee;
}

So it works perfectly in Safari, but when printing, the 4 columns turn into a single column spanning multiple pages. Any ideas?

Answer 1

It seems like the developer of columns in Webkit (Dave Hyatt) disabled columns when printing, because he couldn't implement page breaking properly: https://www.webkit.org/blog/88/css3-multi-column-support/#comment-16854

I'm surprised that in more than 5 years, no solution has been found...