CSS - max-width


Description:

The max-width property is used to set an upper bound on the width of an element.

Possible Values:

  • length: Any length unit. The element can never have a value for width which exceeds this distance.
  • percentage: Limits the element's width to be at most this percentage of the width of the containing block.
  • none: There is no limit to the width of the element.

Applies to:

All the HTML elements except non-replaced inline elements and table elements.

DOM Syntax:

object.style.maxWidth="50px"

Example:

Here is the example:

<p style="max-width:100px; height:200px;border:1px solid red;
             padding:5px; margin:10px;">
This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px
This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px
This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px
This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px
This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px
</p>
<img alt="logo" src="images/css.gif" width="95" height="84" />
     

This will produce following result:

This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px This paragraph is 200px high and max width is 100px

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