Max-Width
Usage
Set the maximum width of an element using the utilities.
The max-w-prose
utility gives an element a max-width optimized for readability and adapts based on the font size.
<div class="text-sm max-w-prose ...">
</div>
<div class="text-base max-w-prose ...">
<p>Dolore iste eaque molestias. Eius iure ut eaque accusantium. Voluptas repellendus nobis. Saepe nam accusantium magni veniam qui enim mollitia excepturi sapiente.</p>
</div>
<div class="text-xl max-w-prose ...">
<p>Dolore iste eaque molestias. Eius iure ut eaque accusantium. Voluptas repellendus nobis. Saepe nam accusantium magni veniam qui enim mollitia excepturi sapiente.</p>
</div>
Constraining to your breakpoints
To control the max-width of an element at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}:
prefix to any existing max-width utility.
<div class="max-w-sm md:max-w-lg ...">
</div>
For more information about Tailwind’s responsive design features, check out the Responsive Design documentation.
Customizing
Customize Tailwind’s default max-width scale for the max-w-*
classes in the theme.maxWidth
section of your tailwind.config.js
file.
The max-w-screen-*
classes are derived from the theme.screens section of your tailwind.config.js
file.
By default, only responsive variants are generated for max-width utilities.
You can control which variants are generated for the max-width utilities by modifying the maxWidth
property in the variants
section of your file.
For example, this config will also generate hover and focus variants:
// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
variants: {
extend: {
// ...
+ maxWidth: ['hover', 'focus'],
}
}
}
If you don’t plan to use the max-width utilities in your project, you can disable them entirely by setting the maxWidth
property to false
in the corePlugins
section of your config file: