CSS Properties: How to set the maximum width of a paragraph element

Last update on February 23 2024 13:04:57 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html><!-- Declares the document type and version of HTML -->
<html><!-- Begins the HTML document -->
<head><!-- Contains metadata and links to external resources -->
<title>How to set the maximum width of a paragraph element</title><!-- Sets the title of the document -->
<style type="text/css"> /* Starts CSS styling */
p { /* Selects all paragraph elements */
    max-width: 100px; /* Sets the maximum width of the paragraphs to 100 pixels */
    background-color: #CC63FF; /* Sets the background color of the paragraphs */
    overflow: auto; /* Specifies how to handle content overflow within the paragraphs */
}
</style><!-- Ends CSS styling -->
</head><!-- Ends the head section -->
<body><!-- Begins the body of the document -->
<p><!-- Paragraph element with text content -->
CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS. <!-- Text content -->
</p><!-- Ends the paragraph element -->
</body><!-- Ends the body section -->
</html><!-- Ends the HTML document -->

Explanation:

This HTML document demonstrates how to set the maximum width for paragraph elements and handle overflow.
CSS comments are added to explain each section of the code.
The p selector is used to target all paragraph elements.
The max-width property is set to 100px to limit the width of paragraphs to 100 pixels.
The background-color property sets the background color of the paragraphs.
The overflow property is set to auto to allow the browser to automatically add a scrollbar if the content exceeds the maximum width.

Live Demo:

See the Pen max-height-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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