<div>
        <br />
        <br />
        <style type="text/css">
            .mainpanel
            {
                display: block;
                border-left-width: 1px;
                border-left-color: Black;
                border-left-style: double;
                padding: 3px;
                float: left;
            }
        </style>
        <div style="" class="mainpanel">
            <div style="width: 245px; float: left; padding: 5px;">
                1
            </div>
            <div style="width: 245px; float: left; padding: 5px;">
                2
            </div>
            <div style="width: 245px; float: left; padding: 5px;">
                3
            </div>
            <div style="width: 245px; float: left; padding: 5px;">
                4
            </div>
            <div style="width: 245px; float: left; padding: 5px;">
                5
            </div>
            <div style="width: 245px; float: left; padding: 5px;">
                6
            </div>
            <div style="width: 245px; float: left; padding: 5px;">
                7
            </div>
            <div style="width: 245px; float: left; padding: 5px;">
                8
            </div>
            <div style="width: 245px; float: left; padding: 5px;">
                9
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

div#multicolumn1 {
        -moz-column-count: 3;
        -moz-column-gap: 10px;
        -webkit-column-count: 3;
        -webkit-column-gap: 10px;
        column-count: 3;
        column-gap: 10px;
}

<div id=multicolumn1>
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</div>

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr valign="top" >
<td  runat="server" id="TopTD">
       <asp:ListView ID="List" runat="server">
            <LayoutTemplate>
                <asp:PlaceHolder ID="itemPlaceHolder" runat="server"></asp:PlaceHolder>
            </LayoutTemplate>
            <ItemTemplate>
             <asp:literal runat="server" id="divdivide"
             visible='<%# eval("BreakFields") %>' Text='<%# eval("DivTag")%>'></asp:literal>
<%# eval("Content")%>
            </ItemTemplate>
            <ItemSeparatorTemplate>
        </asp:ListView>
   </td>
</tr>
    </table>
</div>

Function stringSize(ByVal strTarget As String, ByVal strFont As String, ByVal sngFontSize As Single) As SizeF
        strFont = "Arial, Sans-Serif"
        Dim bitImg As New Bitmap(1, 1)
        Dim g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bitImg)
        Dim f As New Font(strFont, sngFontSize)
        Dim size As SizeF
        g.PageUnit = GraphicsUnit.Pixel
        size = g.MeasureString(strTarget, f)

        Dim I As Int32

        If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(strTarget) Then
            Dim Re As New Regex(vbCrLf)
            I = Re.Matches(strTarget).Count
        End If
        If ColumnWidth > 0 Then
            size.Height = (size.Height * (Math.Ceiling(size.Width / ColumnWidth))) + (I * 20)
            size.Width = ColumnWidth
            Else
            size.Height = (size.Height * (Math.Ceiling(size.Width / DefaultSize))) + (I * 20)
            size.Width = DefaultSize
        End If
        g.Dispose()
        bitImg.Dispose()
        f.Dispose()

        Return size
    End Function
Public ColumnWidth() As Int32

Dim DT As New DataTable
DT.Columns.Add("Content", GetType(Int32))
DT.Columns.Add("Height", GetType(Int32))
DT.Columns.Add("BreakFields", GetType(Boolean))
Dim Row As DataRow
For Each itemtodisplay
Row = DT.NewRow
      Row("Content") = itemtodidisplay
      Row("Height") = 0
      Row("Height") += Fix(stringSize(itemtodisplay, "Arial", 10).Height)
      Row("Height") += 10
      HeightCounter += Row("Height")
      DT.Rows.Add(Row)
Next
BindItems(DT, Top, StartDate)

Private Sub BindItems(ByVal DT As DataTable)
        If ColumnCount <= 0 Then
            ColumnCount = 1
        End If

        Dim I As Int32
        Dim HeightBreak As Int32 = (HeightCounter / ColumnCount) + 40
        Dim CurrentCol As Int32 = 1
        Dim Curheight As Int32
        I = 0
        Dim width As Int32
        If ColumnWidth > 0 Then
            width = ColumnWidth
        else
            width = DefaultSize
        End If
        If ColumnWidth > 0 Then
        TopTD.Width = width + 6
        DT.Columns.Add("DivTag", GetType(String))
        DT.Columns.Add("DivStyle", GetType(String))
        For Each Row In DT.Rows
            Row("DivStyle") = "width:" & width & "px; text-align:left;padding-bottom:3px;"
            If (Row("Height") + Curheight) > HeightBreak + 50 _
            And I > 0 _
            And ColumnCount > 1 _
                And CurrentCol < ColumnCount Then
                Row("BreakFields") = True
                Row("DivTag") = "</td><td width=" & width + 6 & ">"
                CurrentCol += 1
                Curheight = 0
            Else
                Row("BreakFields") = False
            End If
            I += 1
            Curheight += Row("Height")
        Next

        StoryList.DataSource = DT
        StoryList.DataBind()
    End Sub