Split a html code in two equal content parts, in PHP or JS

Question

I want to take the content of a website article and create two or more columns of text. The difficult part is that i must keep the html tags and also close them if the cutting is done inside a <p></p> for example.

Example:

<p><span>One two three <strong>four</strong></span> five six</p>

Result:

<p><span>One two three<span><p>
<p><span><strong>four</strong> five six</p>

So the user will se

One two three 
four five six

Answer 1

Hi,

You have to track the opened tags in a stack data structure. Then when you reach your split point, you have to close every tag that is on the stack in that exact order. The same for openening tags in the next string (in reverse order).

Answer 2

If you're going to use javascript, I would suggest http://welcome.totheinter.net/columnizer-jquery-plugin/