CSS - min-height


Description:

The min-height property is used to set an lower bound on the height of an element.

Possible Values:

  • length: Any length unit. The element can never have a value for height which is lower than this distance.
  • percentage: Limits the element's height to be at least this percentage of the height of the containing block.

Applies to:

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

DOM Syntax:

object.style.minHeight="50px"

Example:

Here is the example:

<p style="width:400px; min-height:200px;border:1px solid red;
             padding:5px; margin:10px;">
This paragraph is 400px wide and min height is 200px
This paragraph is 400px wide and min height is 200px
This paragraph is 400px wide and min height is 200px
This paragraph is 400px wide and min height is 200px
</p>
<img alt="logo" src="images/css.gif" width="95" height="84" />
     

This will produce following result:

This paragraph is 400px wide and min height is 200px This paragraph is 400px wide and min height is 200px This paragraph is 400px wide and min height is 200px This paragraph is 400px wide and min height is 200px

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