What does html * { max-height: 1000000px; } mean?

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I've been inspecting one website I liked and I saw that they use html * { max-height:10000000px; } quite often. But what does it do?

once paragraph of text reaches a certain length, chrome on android decides to resize the text and make it larger so adding `max-height: 999999px;` to the element they want to prevent font boosting on, or its parent. — Mahmoud Zakal, Jul 14 '16 at 08:32

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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Looks like it has to do with font boosting for some browsers on mobile device. Related answers here: Chrome on android resizes font and here how to override font boosting in mobile chrome

edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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answered Jul 14 '16 at 08:33

James

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