Min-width and max-height for table attributes

I have a table and I want to define the min-width and max-height properties. See example below.

My problem now is that the browser doesn't take it. If I define it on td it gets ignored, if I define it in an div element inside a td element, the content has the right min and max width, but the table still has the same size. (so there is a lot of free space :/)

How can I resolve this?

EDIT: I just noticed that the problem seems to only occur when the table is in fullscreen mode. Nevertheless, an element shouldn't have more than the max-width than!

Example:

<html>
<head>
    <style type="text/css">
        td {
            border: 1px solid black;
        }

        html,body,.fullheight {
            height: 100%;
            width: 100%;
        }
        .minfield {
            max-width: 10px;
            border: 1px solid red;
            overflow: hidden;
        }
    </style>    
</head>

<body>
    <table class="fullheight">
        <tr>
            <td class="minfield">
                <div class="minfield">
                    <p>hallo</p>
                </div>
            </td>
            <td><p>welt</p></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</body>
</html>

Min-width and max-height for table attributes

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