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CSS Properties: How to set the maximum height of a paragraph element

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Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>How to set the maximum height of a paragraph element</title>
<style type="text/css">
p {
    max-height: 100px;
    background-color: #CC63FF;
    overflow: auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.
CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.
CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.</p>
</body>
</html>

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CSS strikethrough different color from text?

Yes, by adding an extra wrapping element. Assign the desired line-through color to an outer element, then the desired text color to the inner element. For example:

<span style='color:red;text-decoration:line-through'>
  <span style='color:black'>black with red strikethrough</span>
</span>

...or...

<strike style='color:red'>
  <span style='color:black'>black with red strikethrough<span>
</strike>

(Note, however, that <strike> is considered deprecated in HTML4 and obsolete in HTML5. The recommended approach is to use <del> if a true meaning of deletion is intended, or otherwise to use an <s> element or style with text-decoration CSS as in the first example here.)