Content may cross the boundaries of an HTML Element. To control this behavior CSS overflow property is used. With this property, Content can be clipped or scroll bars can be added to html elements.

Following are the overflow property values:

visible

Default value of HTML elements when content overflows.

hidden

To clip the overflowed content,

scroll

Scroll bars are added to the html elements to maintain overflow.

Auto

when overflowed content is clipped, scroll bars are added automatically to the html element.