Emulate Windows Explorer "List" view on web page?

Question

There is web page that displayed file structure - folders and files. How to emulate Windows Explorer "List" view on this web page? The order of items should be following: from top to bottom and from left to right.

I can arrange items from left to right only, by it doesn't confirm to Windows "List" view:

Item_1   Item_2
Item_3   Item_4
Item_5   ...

The next items arrangement is needed:

Item_1   Item_4
Item_2   Item_5
Item_3   ...

And i stucked to do it.

Thank you for assistance.

Answer 1

You'll need to use columns.

CSS3 has them as a native function.

Until then, there are various Javascript-based solutions to achieve this, for example this JQuery project.