<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<title>Balancing Overflow</title>

<style type="text/css">
  .colset {
    -moz-column-count: 3;
    -moz-column-gap: 0;
    border: solid silver;
    width: 9em;
  }
  .short { height: 5px; }
  img { display: block;
        width: 3em;
        height: 3em;}
</style>



<div class="colset">
  <div class="short"><img src="image-short.png"></div>
</div>