max-inline-size Property

CSS max-inline-size property specifies the maximum horizontal or vertical size of an element’s block, determined by its writing mode and equivalent to either max-height and max-width based on the writing mode value.

The max-inline-size property sets the maximum width for horizontal writing modes and the maximum height for vertical writing modes, respectively. A companion property, max-block-size defines the other dimension.

Possible Values

The max-inline-size property accepts the same values as max-height and max-width.

Applies To

Same as width and height.

Syntax

<length> Values

max-inline-size: 300px;
max-inline-size: 25em;

<percentage> Values

max-inline-size: 40%;

Keyword Values

max-inline-size: none;
max-inline-size: max-content;
max-inline-size: min-content;
max-inline-size: fit-content;
max-inline-size: fit-content(20em);

CSS max-inline-size – <length> Value

The following example demonstrates the max-inline-size: 300px property sets the maximum width of the element to the 300px −

<html><head><style>
   div {
      background-color: greenyellow;
      border: 3px solid red;
      max-inline-size: 300px;
   }
</style></head><body><div><h2>Tutorialspoint</h2><h4>CSS max-inline-size: 300px</h4></div></body></html>

CSS max-inline-size – <percentage> Value

The following example demonstrates the max-inline-size: 80% property sets the maximum width of the element to the 80% −

<html><head><style>
   div {
      background-color: greenyellow;
      border: 3px solid red;
      max-inline-size: 80%;
   }
</style></head><body><div><h2>Tutorialspoint</h2><h4>CSS max-inline-size: 80%</h4><p>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.</p></div></body></html>

CSS max-inline-size – <max-content> Value

The following example demonstrates the max-inline-size: max-content property allowed the width of the div element to expand horizontally to fit the content −

<html><head><style>
   div {
      background-color: greenyellow;
      border: 3px solid red;
      max-inline-size: max-content;
   }
</style></head><body><div><h2>Tutorialspoint</h2><h4>CSS max-inline-size: max-content</h4></div></body></html>

CSS max-inline-size – With Vertical Text

The following example demonstrates the max-inline-size property with writing-modes to display text in vertical direction −

<html><head><style>
   div {
      background-color: greenyellow;
      border: 2px solid blue;
      margin: 10px;
      padding: 5px;
      block-size: 100%;
      max-inline-size: 100px;
      writing-mode: vertical-rl;
   }
</style></head><body><div ><p>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.</p></div></body></html>

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