How CSS for scrollbars works

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Last Updated: 2024-11-21

Scrollbars are controlled with the overflow property.

Design gotchas

Be aware of what widths are changed by presence of scrollbar. Usually it's the content width (i.e. the scrollbar's width goes between the padding and the border).

Accessing scrollbar distances in JS

window.scrollY tells you number of pixels document is currently scrolled along the vertical access. Another name for this property is window.pageYOffset

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