Adding Minimum and Maximum Widths

Another way to limit the flexibility of your layouts—whether they’re fully liquid or elastic or just hybrids—is to use the CSS min-width and max-width properties to set minimum and maximum widths for the entire layout or individual columns.

Protecting Your Users, Designs, and Content

In an ideal world, every design would be able to adapt to every width or text size at which users could realistically want to view it. And users would choose only the browser widths or text sizes that were optimized for their ease of viewing.