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max-content

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨January 2020⁩.

The max-content sizing keyword represents the maximum intrinsic size of an element. The keyword expands the element to the largest size needed to display its content without any soft wraps. For text content, this keyword does not wrap the content at all, even if it causes overflow.

The interpolate-size property and calc-size() function can be used to enable animations to and from max-content.

Syntax

/* Used as a length value */
width: max-content;
inline-size: max-content;
height: max-content;
block-size: max-content;

/* Used in grid tracks */
grid-template-columns: 200px 1fr max-content;

Examples

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Sizing boxes with max-content

HTML

<div id="container">
  <div class="item">Item</div>
  <div class="item">
    Item with more text in it which will overflow the fixed width box.
  </div>
</div>

CSS

#container {
  background-color: #8cffa0;
  padding: 10px;
  width: 200px;
}

.item {
  width: max-content;
  background-color: #8ca0ff;
  padding: 5px;
  margin-bottom: 1em;
}

Result

Sizing grid columns with max-content

HTML

<div id="container">
  <div>Item</div>
  <div>Item with more text in it.</div>
  <div>Flexible item</div>
</div>

CSS

#container {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: max-content max-content 1fr;
  grid-gap: 5px;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  height: 200px;
  width: 100%;
  background-color: #8cffa0;
  padding: 10px;
}

#container > div {
  background-color: #8ca0ff;
  padding: 5px;
}

Result

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
max-content 4622 7979 663 44 112 4625 664 43 111 5.01.5 464.4 111

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/max-content