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Cascading Style Sheets: Tutorial - Page 10
Width and Height
The width is the sum of the properties of the width, border-left, border-right,
margin-left, margin-right, padding-left and padding-right assuming
that all of these values were set with pixel values.
The height of elements should, generally speaking, never be set because if they are too small to fit their
content then they will overflow or, if the overflow property is set, some of the content will be hidden. The
exception to the rule of setting height is when there is no content in the element, or when creating a menu or other element
like a fixed or absolute position element.
The max-width property sets the maximum width for an element. The element can be less than the setting but it can not
be more. This means that it will resize to fit smaller screens but will not grow larger than the value specified. This is
means that on high resolution screens the document will not look odd. The max-height property works the same
way as does the max-width one does except that it applies to the height.
The min-width property sets and element's minimum width. The element can be wider but never less than the
value specified. This is useful when the document would be too deformed if it becomes too narrow. The
min-height property works like the min-width except that it applies to the height.
Floating Elements
Typically, an HTML document flows from the top down, one block-level element on top of another. However, floating elements
move to the left or right of their containing element. When needing to ignore a floated element by having an
element wanting not to wrap around the floated element, specify the clear property.
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