Uplink CSS Columns adds an accessible inspector panel, an editor preview, and server-rendered front-end styles for CSS Multi-column layouts. It has been tested with WordPress 7.0.2.
Group, Paragraph, and List blocks receive the complete set of controls. Any other registered block nested inside a Group receives the Span parent columns control without receiving unrelated container settings. Individual List Item blocks receive fragmentation controls for managing breaks between list items.
Features
- Column count, width, gap, and fill.
- Column rule shorthand, width, style, color, and draft visibility controls.
- Optional padding and margin for the selected multi-column block.
- Draft column height and wrapping controls with editor warnings.
- Column spanning for any registered block inside a Group.
- Break before, break after, and break inside fragmentation controls.
- CSS custom properties and functions such as var(), calc(), min(), max(), and clamp().
- Sanitized server-side output that avoids modifying core block save markup.
- Clear blank/default behavior and examples in control descriptions.
The plugin stores its settings as namespaced block attributes. Front-end declarations are sanitized and injected during block rendering, which avoids the block-validation errors caused by changing core block save markup.
The established Level 1 CSS properties have broad browser support. Column height, column wrap, and column rule visibility are draft features and are clearly marked as experimental. Unsupported properties are ignored by browsers.