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CSS scroll-margin-inline-start Property

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The scroll-margin-inline-start property is used to set all the scroll margins to the start of the inline dimension of a scroll element at once.The selection of the start side depends upon the writing mode. The start side is left side for horizontal-tb writing mode and top or bottom side for the vertical-lr and vertical-rl writing mode respectively. horizontal-tb stands for horizontal top-to -bottom, vertical-rl is the vertical right-to-left, and vertical-lr is the vertical left-to-right.

Syntax:

 scroll-margin-inline-start: length

or

 scroll-margin-inline-start: Global_Values

Property values: The scroll-margin-inline-start property accepts two properties mentioned above and described below.

  • length: This property refers to the values defined with length units like “em”, “px”, “rem”, “vh”, etc.
  • Global_Values: This property refers to the global values like inherit, initial, unset, etc.

Note: The scroll-margin-inline-start does not accept percentage value as the length.

Example: In this example, you can see the effect of scroll-margin-inline-start by scrolling to a point partway between the two of the interfaces of the example’s content.

HTML




<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <style>
        .scroll {
            width: 300px;
            height: 300px;
            overflow-x: scroll;
            display: flex;
            box-sizing: border-box;
            scroll-snap-type: x mandatory;
        }
 
        .scroll>div {
            flex: 0 0 300px;
            border: 1px solid #000;
            background-color: #57e714;
            color: #fff;
            font-size: 40px;
            display: flex;
            align-items: center;
            justify-content: center;
            scroll-snap-align: start;
        }
 
        .scroll>div:nth-child(2n) {
            background-color: #fff;
            color: #0fe962;
        }
 
        .scroll>div:nth-child(2) {
            scroll-margin-inline-start: 2rem;
        }
 
        .scroll>div:nth-child(3) {
            scroll-margin-inline-start: 3rem;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="scroll">
        <div>Geek 1</div>
        <div>Geek 2</div>
        <div>Geek 3</div>
        <div>Geek 4</div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>


Output:

Supported Browsers:

  • Google Chrome 69
  • Edge 79
  • Firefox 68
  • Opera 56
  • Safari 14.1


Last Updated : 29 Aug, 2022
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