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<h2 id="overflow-properties">
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Scrollable Overflow: the 'overflow-x', 'overflow-y', and 'overflow' properties</h2>
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+ These properties specify whether a box’s content
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+ (including any <a>ink overflow</a> )
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+ is clipped to its padding edge,
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+ and if so,
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+ whether it is a <dfn>scrollable box</dfn>
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+ that allows the user to scroll clipped parts of its <a>scrollable area</a>
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+ into view.
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+
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<pre class=propdef>
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Name : overflow-x, overflow-y
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Value : ''visible'' | ''hidden'' | ''clip'' | ''scroll'' | ''auto''
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</pre>
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The 'overflow-x' property specifies
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- the handling of <a>scrollable overflow</a> in the horizontal direction
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+ the handling of <a>overflow</a> in the horizontal direction
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(i.e., overflow from the left and right sides of the box),
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and the 'overflow-y' property specifies the handling
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- of <a>scrollable overflow</a> in the vertical direction
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+ of <a>overflow</a> in the vertical direction
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(i.e., overflow from the top and bottom sides of the box).
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- These properties thereby determine whether or not the box
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- is a <dfn>scrollable box</dfn> .
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<pre class=propdef>
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Name : overflow
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