CSS3 -ms-max-content in IE11

Question

We can set in CSS3 -moz-max-content (for Firefox) and -webkit-max-content (for Chrome, Safari) as width, but it seems -ms-max-content is not working in Internet Explorer (IE11).

Update: Here is a sample code:

.button {
    background: #d1d1d1;
    margin: 2px;
    cursor: pointer;    
    width: -moz-max-content;
    width: -webkit-max-content;
    width: -o-max-content;
    width: -ms-max-content;
}

<div>
    <div class="button"> Short t. </div>
    <div class="button"> Looooooong text </div>
    <div class="button"> Medium text </div>   
</div>

Answer 1

-max-content it is not supported by IE, according to CanIuse.

So I created a fallback for IE that might help you, by setting .button to display:inline-block:

.button {
  background: #d1d1d1;
  margin: 2px;
  cursor: pointer;
  width: -moz-max-content;
  width: -webkit-max-content;
  width: -o-max-content;
  /* width: -ms-max-content;*/
}


/* fallback for IE*/

.button {
  display: inline-block;
}

<div>
  <div class="button">Short t.</div>
  <div class="button">Looooooong text</div>
  <div class="button">Medium text</div>
</div>

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UPDATE: (Based on OP comment)

It's working, but I don't want to display the elements inline.

here is the final answer:

.button {
  background: #d1d1d1;
  margin: 2px;
  cursor: pointer;
  width: -moz-max-content;
  width: -webkit-max-content;
  width: -o-max-content
  /* width: -ms-max-content;*/
}
/* fallback for IE*/
.width {
  width:100%
}
.button {
  display: inline-block;
}

<div>
  <div class="width">
    <div class="button">Short t.</div>
  </div>
  <div class="width">
    <div class="button">Looooooong text</div>
  </div>
  <div class="width">
    <div class="button">Medium text</div>
  </div>
</div>

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NEW UPDATE

Nowadays and for awhile there is a cleaner approach to this issue, by simply setting the parent as display: flex, and you even won't need the *-max-content value in width property

.button {
  background: #d1d1d1;
  margin: 2px;
  cursor: pointer;
}


/* the fix */

section {
  display: flex
}

<section>
  <div class="button">Short t.</div>
  <div class="button">Looooooong text</div>
  <div class="button">Medium text</div>
</section>

Answer 2

This works on IE11, Chrome and Firefox

instead of

width: -moz-max-content;
width: -webkit-max-content;
width: -o-max-content;
width: -ms-max-content;

I used

width: auto;
white-space: nowrap;

Answer 3

For text elements I tried word-break: keep-all; and it worked for me.

Answer 4

Work for flex div. I use to change the height of the parent.

.div-parent {
  display:-webkit-inline-box;
  display:-ms-inline-flexbox;
  display:inline-flex;
  position: fixed;
  top: -70px;
  bottom: 0;
  right: 0;
  left:20px;
  height: 70px;
  opacity: 0;
}

.div-children{
  display:block;
  padding-left:15px;
  padding-right:15px;
  padding-top:0px;
  padding-bottom:0px;
  width: 100%;
}

$("<div class='div-children'>Content...</>").appendTo(".div-parent");
var hd=70; 
while($('.div-parent')[0].scrollHeight > $('.div-parent')[0].clientHeight){
    hd=hd+1;
    $('.div-parent').css("height",hd+"px");
}   
$('.div-parent').css("top","0");
$('.div-parent').css("opacity","1");