css/css-tables/min-height-table-2.html

<!doctype html>
<title>min-height can grow a table over its intrinsic size</title>
<link rel="help" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651530">
<link rel="help" href="https://drafts.csswg.org/css-tables/#computing-the-table-height">
<link rel="help" href="https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5336">
<link rel="author" href="mailto:emilio@crisal.io" title="Emilio Cobos Álvarez">
<link rel="author" href="https://mozilla.org" title="Mozilla">
<link rel="match" href="min-height-table-ref.html">
<style>
:root { overflow: hidden; }

td {
  padding: 0;
}

table {
  border-spacing: 0;
  max-height: 40px; /* Just to make sure that min trumps max, like everywhere else */
  min-height: 50%;
  border: 1px solid black;
  background: green;
  padding: 5px;
}

.outer {
  /* 300px from the ref, plus 12px for border + padding, which applies to the table wrapper box, not the grid box */
  height: calc((300px + 12px) * 2);
}

.inner {
  width: 300px;
  height: 5px;
}
</style>
<div class="outer">
  <table>
    <tr>
      <td><div class="inner"></div></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</div>