CSS Properties: How to set the overflow property to scroll

Last update on February 23 2024 13:05:33 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Solution:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html><!-- Declares the document type and version of HTML -->
<html><!-- Begins the HTML document -->
<head><!-- Contains metadata and links to external resources -->
<title>How to set the overflow property to scroll</title><!-- Sets the title of the document -->
<style type="text/css"> /* Starts CSS styling */
div.w3r { /* Styles div elements with the class "w3r" */
  background-color: #CCFF00; /* Sets the background color of the div to a light yellow (#CCFF00) */
  width: 150px; /* Sets the width of the div to 150 pixels */
  height: 150px; /* Sets the height of the div to 150 pixels */
  overflow: scroll; /* Sets the overflow behavior of the div to scroll */
} /* Ends the styling for div elements with the class "w3r" */
</style><!-- Ends CSS styling -->
</head><!-- Ends the head section -->
<body><!-- Begins the body of the document -->
<h2>w3resource Tutorial</h2><!-- Displays a level 2 heading -->
<div class="w3r">CSS, stands for Cascading Style Sheet is a computer language to describe presentation (for example width, height, color, background color, alignment etc.) of HTML and XML (and XML based languages like XHTML, SVG) web documents. In all the examples of our tutorials, we have used HTML for implementing CSS.</div><!-- Displays a div element with the specified text content -->
</body><!-- Ends the body section -->
</html><!-- Ends the HTML document -->

Explanation:

This HTML document demonstrates how to set the overflow property to scroll for a div element using CSS.
CSS comments are added to explain each section of the code.
The div element with the class "w3r" is styled with:

A background color of light yellow (#CCFF00).
A width and height of 150 pixels each.
An overflow property set to scroll, which adds a scroll bar when the content overflows the specified dimensions of the div.

Live Demo:

See the Pen overflow-answer by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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