Web features explorer - Size containment

Tags: css Groups: CSS > Containment

The contain: size CSS declaration sets an element's dimensions exclusively by its height and width properties, ignoring its contents and descendants. This permits the browser to avoid slower layout calculations. To learn more, see contain at MDN.

Compatibility

Chrome 52 Released on 2016-07-20
Chrome Android 52 Released on 2016-07-27
Edge 79 Released on 2020-01-15
Firefox 69 Released on 2019-09-03
Firefox for Android 79 Released on 2020-07-28
Safari 15.4 Released on 2022-03-14
Safari on iOS 15.4 Released on 2022-03-14

Specifications

CSS Containment Module Level 2 (#containment-size), from Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (W3C).