This is about web-browser pages that display very wide text. To be more specific, a text line is so wide that the eye is not able to find the next line when it reached the right end of the current line and returns to the left. This makes reading tedious and slow. I mean something like the following (screenshot):
But you can modify the layout of web-pages at any time. Click into one of the text paragraphs that are too wide. Then press F12, or open the context menu by clicking right mouse button and select "Inspect", or open the top-right browser menu and select "More Tools" - "Developer Tools". A window or page-embedded panel like the following will open (screenshot):
The HTML element "p" (paragraph) should already be selected on the left in this debugger-window, when not, make sure the tab "Elements" is selected on top, and click onto some "p" element in the left side page view. Then you should see the CSS-styles of "p" on right side.
Click onto the end of some right-side style line (maybe also press ENTER?) to create a new style line. Write the following in new style lines:
- columns: 4;
- border: 2px solid gray;
- and optionally to make it more beautiful:
- padding: 8px;
- border-radius: 8px;
Screenshot:
Your page should look like this now (screenshot):
You can close the F12 debugger window, your styles will persist until you reload the current page, or go to a new page. Unfortunately you need to do this on every new page again!
The text is much better readable now. You will be surprised how this speeds up your reading. This is called the "newspaper layout", and it is one of the things that web-designers do not take serious. Not everything that is old (and this centuries old!) is bad. I must mention that the CSS "columns" style is quite new, available only with browsers that support CSS version 3.