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title: "what is overflow properties in CSS?"  
description: "what is overflow properties in CSS?"  
author: "AVADHESH PATEL"  
published: 2013-05-02  
updated: 2020-09-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1711/what-is-overflow-properties-in-css  
category: "css-css3"  
tags: ["css-css3"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# what is overflow properties in CSS?

Some content in an element may fall outside the element’s rendering box for a number of reasons In cases where this occurs, the ‘overflow’ property describes what to do with the content outside the elements rendering area.\
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see example as following \
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http://www.mindstick.com/Articles/3eaf46bf-7086-4fc5-b853-58f52ce37885/?Overflow%20property%20using%20CSS3%20and%20HTML\

## Answers

### Answer by AVADHESH PATEL

Some content in an element may fall outside the element’s rendering box for a number of reasons In cases where this occurs, the ‘overflow’ property describes what to do with the content outside the elements rendering area.\
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see example as following \
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http://www.mindstick.com/Articles/3eaf46bf-7086-4fc5-b853-58f52ce37885/?Overflow%20property%20using%20CSS3%20and%20HTML\


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