show record results in columns

For column template you may use blog. In the settings you can set how many columns you want.

Also the label name of this field is long so I dont see it all in the list. it is truncated IE "I can perform the...." I would rather have it wrap the label.

Unfortunately we use this as universal solution. Some people have long labels some short. SO we use Twitter Bootstrap standart DT/DD list style to format. If you want to change something, right now I only can suggest you to customise template. Good we have nice article how to do it in Community Knowledge.

This is result

This how its set

If i understand you correctly, you want to display the selected checkbox results on an article list formatted in columns, right?

For this you need to create a field output template, which displays your result in the way you want it. (example a HTML table)

You will find all your selected choices in this array $this->values.

The UL on this "area" should be set to 750px then each li should be set to float:left and given a width of 13em. I think the styles are getting overridden somewhere maybe the theme? Perhaps a custom UL class and li class to achieve the goal, but I just don't know where to put it in at.

As said, i believe you need a custom output template for this.

The best way to start is to copy an existing template and modify it to your liking.

You will find them under /components/com_cobalt/fields/checkbox/tmpl/output/

As of the moment there are 2 templates: default and coma.

If you get stuck along the way, i will look into it tomorrow/later (It's already 3:40 am here .. :O )

Thank you for providing me the path to the outputs. I did not know where they were.

Please check this article

It contains very valuable information .. :D

My bad :) when I read simple_list I thought we are talking about columns for articles not for field options.

For field output I also believe custom field output template is needed.