Maxlength for Div and Span elements

Question

How to set max length for Span and Div elements ?

Answer 1

If you mesn width, then use css width properties:

<div style='max-width:100px'>Content</div>
<span style='max-width:100px; display:block;'>Content</span>

If you really mean length of content, You can't, in HTML. You need to use a piece of javascript to do this. Take a look at JQuery, it's really easy to do. It will boil down to something like:

$('#yourDivId').html().length

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

You mean max width?

max-width: ??px;