CSS overflow: scroll

CSS Web Development Front End Technology

In the CSS overflow property with value scroll, the overflow is clipped and a scrollbar gets added. This allows the user to read the entire content.

Example

You can try to run the following code to implement CSS overflow: scroll property −

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <style>
         div {
            background-color: orange;
            width: 250px;
            height: 45px;
            border: 2px solid blue;
            overflow: scroll;
         }
      </style>
   </head>
   <body>
      <h1>Heading</h1>
      <div>Overflow property used here. This is a demo text to show the working of CSS overflow: scroll. This won't hide the content. Now a scrollbar will be visible.</div>
   </body>
</html>