Maxlength for Div and Span elements

html maxlength
User 1034 picture User 1034 · Jun 24, 2010 · Viewed 37k times · Source

How to set max length for Span and Div elements ?

Answer

Pekka picture Pekka · Jun 24, 2010

There are the 

max-height / max-width

CSS properties that will limit the width for block level elements (i.e. not spans). Reference

Note that they are not supported by IE 6.

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