By CSS 2.1 rules, the height of a table cell is “the minimum height required by the content”. Thus, you need to restrict the height indirectly using inner markup, normally a div
element (<td><div>content</div></td>
), and set height
and overflow
properties on the the div
element (without setting display: table-cell
on it, of course, as that would make its height obey CSS 2.1 table cell rules).