<div class = "item">
This is a bunch of text split into three columns using the
CSS`colums`property. The text is equally distributed over
the columns.
</div>
.item {
width: 700px;
height: 150px;
border: 3px solid #abcdef;
margin: 0 auto;
column-count: 3;
column-gap: 10px;
padding:20px;
/* font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; */
}