Description

The overflow property determines how content which overflows its element's content area should be handled.

Possible Values

visible - Overflowing content should be displayed. hidden - Overflowing content should not be displayed. scroll - Overflowing content should not be displayed, but the user agent should provide some means of accessing the hidden content (e.g., a set of scrollbars). auto - The behavior caused by this value is dependent on the browser.

Applies to

All the HTML elements.

DOM Syntax

object.style.overflow = "scroll";

Example

Here is the example -

<html>
   <head>
      <style type = "text/css">
         .scroll {
            display:block;
            border: 1px solid red;
            padding:5px;
            margin-top:5px;
            width:300px;
            height:50px;
            overflow:scroll;
         }
         .auto {
            display:block;
            border: 1px solid red;
            padding:5px;
            margin-top:5px;
            width:300px;
            height:50px;
            overflow:auto;
         }
      </style>
   </head>

   <body>
   
      <p>Example of scroll value:</p>
      
      <div class = "scroll">
         I am going to keep lot of content here just to show you how 
         scrollbars works if there is an overflow in an element box. 
         This provides your horizontal as well as vertical scrollbars.
      </div>
      <br/>
      
      <p>Example of auto value:</p>
      
      <div class = "auto">
         I am going to keep lot of content here just to show you how 
         scrollbars works if there is an overflow in an element box. 
         This provides your horizontal as well as vertical scrollbars.
      </div>
      
   </body>
</html>

This will produce following result -

Example of scroll value:

I am going to keep lot of content here just to show you how scrollbars works if there is an overflow in an element box. This provides your horizontal as well as vertical scrollbars.

Example of auto value:

I am going to keep lot of content here just to show you how scrollbars works if there is an overflow in an element box. This provides your horizontal as well as vertical scrollbars.