09. Handling Element Overflow

The overflow property

You can tell CSS how to handle elements that are too large to be contained within its parent container.

We use the propertyoverflow, and the values can be set to hidden, visible, scroll, auto.

#sample {
  width: 18em;
  height: 7em;
  margin: 0 auto 5px;
  border: 2px black solid;
  border-radius: 5px;
  padding: 0.5em;
  overflow: scroll;   /* how container will handle overflow */
}

Scroll

This overflow is set to scroll, with the overflow text clipped.

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Visible

This overflow is set to visible, meaning the text just goes out of its containing box like it runs the place.

Hidden

This overflow is set to hidden. Notice that the text just cuts off.

Auto

This overflow is set to auto, which causes overflowing content to be clipped with a scroll-bar added.

Specifying a dimension for overflow

If you'd like to handle just the horizontal or vertical overflow, we can use theoverflow-x andoverflow-y properties.

p {
  overflow-x: hidden;
}

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