CSS - max-width Property
The max-width property is used to set an upper bound on the width of an element.
Possible Values
none − There is no limit to the width of the element.
<length> − Any length unit. The element can never have a value for width which exceeds this distance.
<percentage> − Limits the element's width to the percentage of the width of the containing block.
initial − Sets the value of max-width to its default value.
inherit − The value of max-width is inherited from its parent value.
Applies to
All the HTML elements except non-replaced inline elements and table elements.
DOM Syntax
object.style.maxWidth = "50px"
CSS max-width - <length> Value
The following example demonstrates max-width: 100px property sets the maximum width of an element to 100px −
<html> <head> <style> p { max-width:100px; height:200px; border:4px solid #0000ff; padding:5px; margin:10px; } </style> </head> <body> <p> This paragraph is 200px high and max-width is 100px Hence the border is not covering the entire text and there is some part of text outside the border. This is due to the max-width value set for p tag. </p> </body> </html>
CSS max-width - With Different Value
Here is another example demonstrating usage of different types of values in max-width property −
<html> <head> <style> div.a { border: 2px solid red; max-width: 200px; width: 400px; overflow: auto; margin-bottom: 4px; } div.b { border: 2px solid blue; max-width: 40%; overflow: auto; margin-bottom: 4px; } div.c { border: 2px solid red; max-width: none; width: 400px; overflow: auto; margin-bottom: 4px; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="a"> <h2>max-width: 200px and width:400px</h2> <p>The <i>max-width</i> property allows you to specify maximum width of a box. Here the max-width is 200px less than the width which is 400px.</p> </div> <div class="b"> <h2>max-width: 40%</h2> <p>The <i>max-width</i> property allows you to specify maximum width of a box. Here the max-width is 40%.</p> </div> <div class="c"> <h2>max-width: none (default):</h2> <p>The <i>max-width</i> property allows you to specify maximum width of a box. Here the max-width is none.</p> </div> </body> </html>
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