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The overflow property

  

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

<head>
  <title>The overflow property</title>
<style type='text/css'>
div {max-height:75px;
   max-width:250px;
   padding:5px;
   margin:10px;
   border:1px solid #000000;}

div.one {overflow:hidden;}

div.two {overflow:scroll;}
</style>

</head>

<body>

<div class="one">Sometimes the content of a box will go over the edges of the box. There are a number of reasons why this might happen, including the content being larger than the box, or a box having negative margins. In such cases the overflow property can be used with a value of hidden or scroll.</div>

<div class="two">Sometimes the content of a box will go over the edges of the box. There are a number of reasons why this might happen, including the content being larger than the box, or a box having negative margins. In such cases the overflow property can be used with a value of hidden or scroll.</div>

</body>
</html>








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1.'overflow' Example
2.overflow: auto
3.overflow: hidden
4.overflow: scroll
5.You can set overflow to one of four constant values: visible, hidden, scroll, or auto.
6.The default value is visible, which allows overflowing content to be rendered outside the containing block.
7.hidden hides the overflowing content and does not provide scrollbars, which prevents a user from scrolling overflowed content into view.
8.scroll clips the overflowing content and provides scrollbars
9.auto works like scroll except that it shows scrollbars only as needed
10.visibility:hidden hides an element without affecting the other elements' inline flow.
11.display:none does not render an element by completely removing it from all flows
12.overflow:scroll
13.overflow:auto; white-space: nowrap
14.Overflow value
15.overflow determines what happens when an element's content is larger than its inner box. The default is to show the overflowing content.
16.Overflow auto
17.H2 with overflow hidden
18.overflow auto, white space, nowrap
19.Overflow auto method demonstrated