The max-height property is used to set the maximum height of an element. This property prevents the height property's value from becoming larger than the value specified for max-height.
The max-height property overrides the height property, and min-height property overrides the max-height property.
max-height: none | length | initial | inherit;
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
p {
max-height: 50px;
overflow: auto;
border: 1px solid #666;
padding: 5px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Max-height property example</h2>
<p>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.</p>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
.example1 {
max-height: 2cm;
overflow: auto;
border: 1px solid #666;
width: 300px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Max-height property example</h2>
<h3>Max-height: none;</h3>
<p>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.</p>
<h3>Max-height: 2cm;</h3>
<p class="example1">Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.</p>
</body>
</html>