overflow-y

Support Key: [IE5]
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Default Value:
   visible
Applicable Elements:
Block and Replaced elements
Inherit From Parent:
No
Applicable Media:
Visual
HTML Equivalent:
NA
Official Docs:
Microsoft MSDN Reference
What is it?
Some content in an element may fall outside the element's rendering box for a number of reasons (negative margins, absolute positioning, content exceeding the width/height set for an element, etc.) In cases where this occurs, the 'overflow-y' property describes what to do with the content that exceeds the element's height.

Allowed Values
visible
[IE5]
Type: Explicit
Description:
Content is not clipped and may be rendered outside of the element's box.
hidden
[IE5]
Type: Explicit
Description:
Content is clipped and content outside of the element's box is not visible. The size of the clipping region is defined by the 'clip' property.
scroll
[IE5]
Type: Explicit
Description:
Content is clipped as necessary, but a vertical scrollbar is made available where necessary to view the additional, non-visible content. If the Visual media in use is static (such as Print) the content should be treated as if the value was 'visible'.
auto
[IE5]
Type: Explicit
Description:
This value is browser and media dependent, but should allow for a vertical scrollbar if possible in case of overflow.
Example
Ext/Doc: blockquote { width: 50px; height: 50px; overflow-y: scroll }
In-Line:  <blockquote STYLE="width: 50px; height: 50px; overflow-y: scroll">text
that scrolls if forced in the name of decent CSS</blockquote>
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