CSS Dimension Properties

CSS Web Development Front End Technology

Several properties like width, height, max-height, etc. in CSS allow user to control the dimensions of element content box.

Let’s see an example for the CSS max-height property −

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>CSS max-height</title>
<style>
form {
   width:70%;
   margin: 0 auto;
   text-align: center;
}
* {
   padding: 2px;
   margin:5px;
}
#containerDiv {
   margin: 0 auto;
   max-height: 150px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<fieldset>
<legend>CSS max-height</legend>
<div id="containerDiv">
<img id="image" src="https://www.tutorialspoint.com/machine_learning_with_python/images/machine-learning-with-python-mini-logo.jpg">
</div>
</fieldset>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Output

Before max-height was defined −

After max-height was defined −

Let’s see another example of CSS min-width property −

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>CSS min-width Property</title>
</head>
<style>
* {
   padding: 2px;
   margin:5px;
}
button {
   border-radius: 10px;
}
#containerDiv {
   width:70%;
   margin: 0 auto;
   padding:20px;
   background-image: linear-gradient(135deg, #dc3545 0%, #9599E2 100%);
   text-align: center;
   border-radius: 10px;
}
.contentDiv{
   min-width:200px;
   border: 1px solid black;
}
</style>
<body>
<div id="containerDiv">
<div class="contentDiv">
This is paragraph 1 with some dummy text.
</div>
<div class="contentDiv">
This is paragraph 2 with some dummy text.
</div>
<div class="contentDiv">
This is paragraph 2 with some dummy text.
</div>
<button onclick="add()" class="btn">Set minWidth</button>
</div>
<script>
function add() {
   document.querySelectorAll('.contentDiv')[1].style.minWidth = "100%";
}
</script>
</body>
</html>