How Can I Add a Scroll Bar to an HTML div Element

This is an HTML div element. Within this element is text. This text doesn't matter because it's just filler text. It's designed to just take up so that space can be taken up. It serves to show how a div element with scroll bars will look. Looking at this div element, you should get an idea of what the scroll bars do and how it functions. With these scroll bars, a user can scroll either vertically or horizontally through the content within this div bar. This is just a demonstration of the use of this.

In order to add horizontal and vertical scroll bars to a div element in HTML,
we add an overflow attribute to the div element.

If you only want the scroll bars to appear if necessary,
This is shown in the following code below.


With the overflow attribute set to auto,
the scroll bars will only be shown if the content within the div element is long enough to elicit scroll bars.

This is an HTML div element.

This is an HTML div element. Within this element is text. This text doesn't matter because it's just filler text. It's designed to just take up so that space can be taken up. It serves to show how a div element with scroll bars will look. Looking at this div element, you should get an idea of what the scroll bars do and how it functions. With these scroll bars, a user can scroll either vertically or horizontally through the content within this div bar. This is just a demonstration of the use of this.

To add only a horizontal element to a div element, we use the following code below:

This is an HTML div element. Within this element is text. This text doesn't matter because it's just filler text. It's designed to just take up so that space can be taken up. It serves to show how a div element with scroll bars will look. Looking at this div element, you should get an idea of what the scroll bars do and how it functions. With these scroll bars, a user can scroll either vertically or horizontally through the content within this div bar. This is just a demonstration of the use of this.