Max-Width

Utilities for setting the maximum width of an element

Class reference

Class Properties
.max-w-xs max-width: 20rem;
.max-w-sm max-width: 24rem;
.max-w-md max-width: 28rem;
.max-w-lg max-width: 32rem;
.max-w-xl max-width: 36rem;
.max-w-2xl max-width: 42rem;
.max-w-3xl max-width: 48rem;
.max-w-4xl max-width: 56rem;
.max-w-5xl max-width: 64rem;
.max-w-6xl max-width: 72rem;
.max-w-full max-width: 100%;
.max-w-screen-sm max-width: 640px;
.max-w-screen-md max-width: 768px;
.max-w-screen-lg max-width: 1024px;
.max-w-screen-xl max-width: 1280px;
.max-w-none max-width: none;

Usage

Set the maximum width of an element using the max-w-{size} utilities.

max-w-md 
<div class="max-w-md mx-auto ...">
  max-w-md
</div>

Responsive

To control the min-width of an element at a specific breakpoint, add a {screen}: prefix to any existing min-width utility.

For more information about Tailwind's responsive design features, check out the Responsive Design documentation.

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Customizing

Max-Width Scale

Customize Tailwind's default max-width scale in the theme.maxWidth section of your tailwind.config.js file.

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
theme: {
maxWidth: {
+     '1/4': '25%',
+     '1/2': '50%',
+     '3/4': '75%',
}
}
}

Learn more about customizing the default theme in the theme customization documentation.

Responsive and pseudo-class variants

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 tailwind.config.js file.

For example, this config will also generate hover and focus variants:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
variants: {
    // ...
-   maxWidth: ['responsive'],
+   maxWidth: ['responsive', 'hover', 'focus'],
}
}

Disabling

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:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
corePlugins: {
    // ...
+   maxWidth: false,
}
}