How To Insert Scrollbars In Css

By / February 1, 2022

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In this tutorial we will discuss how you ca insert scrollbars in CSS. You may find some cases when the characters you are writing exceeds the textbox or the space allocated, you may use scrollbars to allow easy navigation and reading of the contents. To insert the scroll you will need to understand the following values;

  • scroll -in this case the the scrollbars are added to allow the users to see the content when they scroll down.
  • auto -in this case the scrollbar will be shown if the content does not overflow only.
  • hidden– the scrollbars are not visible at the borders of the containing element
  • visible -the scrollbars are visible at the borders of the containing element.

We may have an example here for better understanding;

<head>
<title>Example for scrollbars</title>
<style>
scrollbar{
margin: auto;
border: 1px solid blue;
padding: 4px;
width: 250px;
height: 40px;
overflow: scroll;
display: block;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="scrollbar">
I wish to thank the founders of learntechphilloh program for organizing and writing this awesome tutorial on how you can set up the scrollbars when you over write a certain content, may you always have that spirit to help people grow in their programming journey.
</div>
</body>

It will produce this;

Example for scrollbars
I wish to thank the founders of learntechphilloh program for organizing and writing this awesome tutorial on how you can set up the scrollbars when you over write a certain content, may you always have that spirit to help people grow in their programming journey.

We may have another example here;

<head>
<title>Example for scrollbars</title>
<style>
scrollbar{
margin: auto;
border: 1px solid blue;
padding: 4px;
width: 250px;
height: 40px;
overflow: auto;
display: block;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="scrollbar">
I wish to thank the founders of learntechphilloh program for organizing and writing this awesome tutorial on how you can set up the scrollbars when you over write a certain content, may you always have that spirit to help people grow in their programming journey.
</div>
</body>

It will produce this;

Example for scrollbars
I wish to thank the founders of learntechphilloh program for organizing and writing this awesome tutorial on how you can set up the scrollbars when you over write a certain content, may you always have that spirit to help people grow in their programming journey.

Thanks for reading through our tutorial, as we continue learning about CSS hoping to meet you in our next tutorial.