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

Last update on February 23 2024 13:04:55 (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 minimum width of a paragraph element</title><!-- Sets the title of the document -->
<style type="text/css"> /* Starts CSS styling */
p { /* Selects all paragraph elements */
    min-width: 120px; /* Sets the minimum width of the paragraphs to 120 pixels */
    background-color: #CC63FF; /* Sets the background color of the paragraphs */
   } /* Ends the paragraph styling */
</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.
</p><!-- Ends the paragraph element -->
</body><!-- Ends the body section -->
</html><!-- Ends the HTML document -->

Explanation:

This HTML document demonstrates how to set the minimum width for paragraph elements.
CSS comments are added to explain each section of the code.
The p selector is used to target all paragraph elements.
The min-width property is set to 120px to specify the minimum width of paragraphs.
The background-color property sets the background color of the paragraphs.

Live Demo:

See the Pen min-width-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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