Block elements by default take up as much width as possible and as much height as necessary. With the help of CSS, widths and heights can be enforced, both to restrict and to stretch them. Overall, CSS properties are available for width and height (width and height), minimum width and minimum height (min-width and min-height), as well as maximum width and maximum height (max-width and max-height).
The CSS properties height and width are used to define the height and width of an element.
CSS width and height
The height and width properties are used to define the height and width of an element. The width CSS property defines the width of an element's content area, while the height property defines its height. The content area is located inside the element's padding, border, and margin.
CSS values for height and width
The height and width properties can have the following values:
auto- This is the default setting. The browser calculates the height and width. If both height and width are set to auto, the dimensions of the text or image element remain unchangedlength- Defines the height/width in: cm (centimeters), em (ems), ex (x-height), in (inches), mm (millimeters), pc (pica), pt (points), px (pixels).%- Defines the height/width as a percentage of the surrounding blockinitial- Sets the height/width to the default valueInherit- The height/width is inherited from its parent value
“max-width” and “max-height”
The max-width/max-height property is used to define the maximum width or maximum height of an element.
The maximum width and maximum length can be specified using length values such as px, cm, etc., or as a percentage (%) of the surrounding block, or set to “none” (which is the default setting)
Note: If, for any reason, both the width/height property and the max-width/max-heigth property are used for the same element, and the value of the width/height property is greater than the max-width/max-height property, the max-width/max-height property is used (and the width/height property is ignored).
The min-width/min-height and max-width/max-height properties override width and height, respectively.
All CSS dimension properties
height- Defines the height of an elementwidth- Defines the width of an elementmax-height- Defines the maximum height of an elementmax-width- Defines the maximum width of an elementmin-height- Defines the minimum height of an elementmin-width- Defines the minimum width of an element
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