CSS overflow-x Property

The overflow-x property specifies whether the content should be hidden, visible or scrolls horizontally when the content overflows the element’s left and right edges. This property is one of the CSS3 properties.

The overflow-x property has four main values: visible, scroll, auto and hidden.

Initial Value	visible
Applies to	Block-containers, flex containers and grid containers.
Inherited	No.
Animatable	No.
Version	CSS3
DOM Syntax	object.style.overflowX = “visible”;

Syntax

overflow-x: visible | hidden | scroll | auto | initial | inherit;

Example of the overflow-x property:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div.example {
        background-color: #1c87c9;
        color: #fff;
        width: 40px;
        overflow-x: scroll;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Overflow-x property example</h2>
    <h3>Overflow-x: scroll</h3>
    <div class="example">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Result

Example of the overflow-x property with the “visible” value:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div.example {
        background-color: #1c87c9;
        color: #cccccc;
        width: 40px;
        overflow-x: visible;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Overflow-x property example</h2>
    <h3>Overflow-x: visible</h3>
    <div class="example">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Example of the overflow-x property with the “hidden” value:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div.example {
        background-color: #1c87c9;
        color: #fff;
        width: 40px;
        overflow-x: hidden;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Overflow-x property example</h2>
    <h3>Overflow-x: hidden</h3>
    <div class="example">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Example of the overflow-x property with the “auto” value:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div.example {
        background-color: #1c87c9;
        color: #fff;
        width: 40px;
        overflow-x: auto;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Overflow-x property example</h2>
    <h3>Overflow-x: auto</h3>
    <div class="example">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Example of the overflow-x property with all the values:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div.scroll {
        background-color: #ccc;
        width: 50px;
        overflow-x: scroll;
      }
      div.hidden {
        background-color: #ccc;
        width: 50px;
        overflow: hidden;
      }
      div.auto {
        background-color: #ccc;
        width: 50px;
        overflow: auto;
      }
      div.visible {
        background-color: #ccc;
        width: 50px;
        overflow: visible;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>Overflow-x property example</h2>
    <h3>overflow-x: scroll</h3>
    <div class="scroll">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
    <h3>overflow-x: hidden</h3>
    <div class="hidden">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
    <h3>overflow-x: auto</h3>
    <div class="auto">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
    <h3>overflow-x: visible</h3>
    <div class="visible">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

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