max-height
Quick Summary for max-height
max-height CSS property sets the maximum height of an element. It prevents the used value of the height property from becoming larger than the value specified for max-height.
Code Usage for max-height
/* <length> value */ max-height: 3.5em; /* <percentage> value */ max-height: 75%; /* Keyword values */ max-height: none; max-height: max-content; max-height: min-content; max-height: fit-content(20em); /* Global values */ max-height: inherit; max-height: initial; max-height: revert; max-height: unset; More Details for max-height
max-height
The max-height CSS property sets the maximum height of an element. It prevents the used value of the height property from becoming larger than the value specified for max-height.
max-height overrides height, but min-height overrides max-height.
Syntax
/* <length> value */ max-height: 3.5em; /* <percentage> value */ max-height: 75%; /* Keyword values */ max-height: none; max-height: max-content; max-height: min-content; max-height: fit-content(20em); /* Global values */ max-height: inherit; max-height: initial; max-height: revert; max-height: unset; Values
<length> Defines the max-height as an absolute value.
<percentage> Defines the max-height as a percentage of the containing block's height.
none No limit on the size of the box.
max-content The intrinsic preferred max-height.
min-content The intrinsic minimum max-height.
fit-content(<length-percentage>) Uses the fit-content formula with the available space replaced by the specified argument, i.e. min(max-content, max(min-content, argument)).
Accessibility concerns
Ensure that elements set with a max-height are not truncated and/or do not obscure other content when the page is zoomed to increase text size.
Formal definition
| Initial value | none |
|---|---|
| Applies to | all elements but non-replaced inline elements, table columns, and column groups |
| Inherited | no |
| Percentages | The percentage is calculated with respect to the height of the generated box's containing block. If the height of the containing block is not specified explicitly (i.e., it depends on content height), and this element is not absolutely positioned, the percentage value is treated as none. |
| Computed value | the percentage as specified or the absolute length or none |
| Animation type | a length, percentage or calc(); |
Formal syntax
none | <length-percentage> | min-content | max-content | fit-content | fit-content(<length-percentage>)where
<length-percentage> = <length> | <percentage>
Examples
Setting max-height using percentage and keyword values
table { max-height: 75%; } form { max-height: none; } Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| CSS Box Sizing Module Level 4 # width-height-keywords |
See also
The box model,box-sizing height, min-height The mapped logical properties: max-inline-size, max-block-size Last modified: Aug 12, 2021, by MDN contributors
Select your preferred language English (US)DeutschEspañolFrançais日本語한국어Русский中文 (简体) Change languageAdd Comment
Other Items in CSS
Related Search Terms
Other Categories in CSS
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
