Expanding overflow: hidden text onto columns

Expanding overflow: hidden text onto columns

Hi,

I am in need of a quick fix for this problem with jQuery hopefully. I have some text that is generated from the database and this text is very large so I want it to expand to three columns on the page. I've created three columns with CSS with a class of "customColumn" which has a max height then overflow:hidden. Basically my question is can we use jQuery to take the text that has overflowed and make it continue on the next column?

I have attached an image to explain what I mean.

Many thanks!