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This class accepts more than one value in tailwind CSS. It is the alternative to the CSS Overscroll-behavior property. This class is used to set the behavior of the browser when the boundary of a scrolling area is reached. This property can be used to prevent unwanted scrolling in pages where there are multiple scroll areas. 

There is separate property in CSS for CSS Overscroll-behavior-x and CSS Overflow-behavior-y, but we will cover it in this single article.

Overscroll Behavior class:

  • overscroll-auto
  • overscroll-contain
  • overscroll-none
  • overscroll-y-auto
  • overscroll-y-contain
  • overscroll-y-none
  • overscroll-x-auto
  • overscroll-x-contain
  • overscroll-x-none

overscroll-auto:  It is used to set the scrolling behavior to default. The whole page along with the element will scroll even if the boundary of the element is reached. It is the default value.

Syntax:

<element class="overscroll-auto">...</element>

Example:

HTML




<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
    <link href=
"https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^1.0/dist/tailwind.min.css"
        rel="stylesheet">
</head>
  
<body class="text-center">
    <center>
        <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold">
            GeeksforGeeks
        </h1>
  
        <b>Tailwind CSS Overscroll Class</b>
          
        <div class="flex">
            <div class="overscroll-contain bg-green-200 p-4 
                mx-24 w-1/3 text-justify">
                This portal has been created to provide well
                written, well thought and well explained 
                solutions for selected questions. An IIT 
                Roorkee alumnus and founder of GeeksforGeeks. 
                He loves to solve programming problems in 
                most efficient ways. Apart from GeeksforGeeks,
                he has worked with DE Shaw and Co. as a 
                software developer and JIIT Noida as an 
                assistant professor.
            </div>
  
            <div class="overscroll-auto overflow-y-scroll 
                bg-green-400 p-2 w-1/4 h-24">
                This is a smaller element that is also 
                scrollable. The overscroll behavior can 
                be used to control if the main content 
                behind would scroll when this element's 
                vertical boundary is reached.
            </div>
        </div>
    </center>
</body>
  
</html>


Output:

overscroll-contain: It is used to set the scrolling behavior to default only on the element used. Scrolling the element further after it has reached the boundary will not scroll the elements behind it. No scroll-chaining would occur in the neighboring scrolling areas.

Syntax:

<element class="overscroll-contain">...</element>

Example:

HTML




<!DOCTYPE html> 
<head
    <link href=
"https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^1.0/dist/tailwind.min.css" 
          rel="stylesheet"
</head
  
<body class="text-center"
<center>
    <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold">
        GeeksforGeeks
    </h1
    <b>Tailwind CSS Overscroll Class</b
    <div class="flex">
    <div class="overscroll-contain bg-green-200 p-4 
                mx-24 w-1/3 text-justify">
      This portal has been created to provide well written,   
      well thought and well explained solutions for selected   
      questions. An IIT Roorkee alumnus and founder of   
      GeeksforGeeks. He loves to solve programming problems  
      in most efficient ways. Apart from GeeksforGeeks, he   
      has worked with DE Shaw and Co. as a software developer   
      and JIIT Noida as an assistant professor.
    </div
    <div class="overscroll-contain overflow-y-scroll 
                bg-green-400 p-2 w-1/4 h-24">
      This is a smaller element that is also 
      scrollable. The overscroll behavior 
      can be used to control if the main 
      content behind would scroll when this 
      element's vertical boundary is reached.
    </div>
    </div>
</center>
</body
  
</html>


Output:

overscroll-none: It is used to prevent scroll-chaining on all elements. The default scroll overflow behavior is also prevented.

Syntax:

<element class="overscroll-none">...</element>

Example:

HTML




<!DOCTYPE html> 
<head
    <link href=
"https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^1.0/dist/tailwind.min.css" 
          rel="stylesheet"
</head
  
<body class="text-center"
<center>
    <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold">
        GeeksforGeeks
    </h1
    <b>Tailwind CSS Overscroll Class</b
    <div class="flex">
    <div class="overscroll-contain bg-green-200 p-4 
                mx-24 w-1/3 text-justify">
      This portal has been created to provide well written,   
      well thought and well explained solutions for selected   
      questions. An IIT Roorkee alumnus and founder of   
      GeeksforGeeks. He loves to solve programming problems  
      in most efficient ways. Apart from GeeksforGeeks, he   
      has worked with DE Shaw and Co. as a software developer   
      and JIIT Noida as an assistant professor.
    </div
    <div class="overscroll-none overflow-y-scroll 
                bg-green-400 p-2 w-1/4 h-24">
      This is a smaller element that is also 
      scrollable. The overscroll behavior 
      can be used to control if the main 
      content behind would scroll when this 
      element's vertical boundary is reached.
    </div>
    </div>
</center>
</body
  
</html>


Output:

Overscroll-behavior-y: This class is used to set the behavior of the browser when the vertical boundary of a scrolling area is reached. This can be used in websites where there are multiple scrolling areas and scrolling one area does not affect the page as a whole. This effect is known as scroll-chaining which can be enabled or disabled accordingly.

overscroll-y-auto: This is used to set the scrolling behavior on the y-axis to default on all the elements. The whole page will scroll even if the boundary of the element is reached. It is the default value.

Syntax:

<element class="overscroll-y-auto">...</element>

Example:

HTML




<!DOCTYPE html> 
<head
    <link href=
"https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^1.0/dist/tailwind.min.css" 
          rel="stylesheet"
</head
  
<body class="text-center"
<center>
    <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold">
        GeeksforGeeks
    </h1
    <b>Tailwind CSS overscroll-behavior-y Class</b
    <div class="flex">
    <div class="overscroll-contain bg-green-200 p-4 
                mx-24 w-1/3 text-justify">
      This portal has been created to provide well written,   
      well thought and well explained solutions for selected   
      questions. An IIT Roorkee alumnus and founder of   
      GeeksforGeeks. He loves to solve programming problems  
      in most efficient ways. Apart from GeeksforGeeks, he   
      has worked with DE Shaw and Co. as a software developer   
      and JIIT Noida as an assistant professor.
    </div
    <div class="overscroll-behavior-y-auto overflow-y-scroll 
                bg-green-400 p-2 w-1/4 h-24">
      This is a smaller element that is also 
      scrollable. The overscroll behavior 
      can be used to control if the main 
      content behind would scroll when this 
      element's vertical boundary is reached.
    </div>
    </div>
</center>
</body
  
</html>


Output:

overscroll-y-contain: It is used to set the scrolling behavior on the y-axis to default only on the element used. No scroll-chaining would occur on the neighboring scrolling areas and the elements behind will not scroll.

Syntax:

<element class="overscroll-y-contain">...</element>

Example:

HTML




<!DOCTYPE html> 
<head
    <link href=
"https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^1.0/dist/tailwind.min.css" 
          rel="stylesheet"
</head
  
<body class="text-center"
<center>
    <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold">
        GeeksforGeeks
    </h1
    <b>Tailwind CSS overscroll-behavior-y Class</b
    <div class="flex">
    <div class="overscroll-contain bg-green-200 p-4 
                mx-24 w-1/3 text-justify">
      This portal has been created to provide well written,   
      well thought and well explained solutions for selected   
      questions. An IIT Roorkee alumnus and founder of   
      GeeksforGeeks. He loves to solve programming problems  
      in most efficient ways. Apart from GeeksforGeeks, he   
      has worked with DE Shaw and Co. as a software developer   
      and JIIT Noida as an assistant professor.
    </div
    <div class="overscroll-behavior-y-contain overflow-y-scroll 
                bg-green-400 p-2 w-1/4 h-24">
      This is a smaller element that is also 
      scrollable. The overscroll behavior 
      can be used to control if the main 
      content behind would scroll when this 
      element's vertical boundary is reached.
    </div>
    </div>
</center>
</body
  
</html>


Output:

overscroll-y-none: It is used to prevent scroll-chaining on the y-axis on all elements. The default scroll overflow behavior is also prevented.

Syntax:

<element class="overscroll-y-none">...</element>

Example:

HTML




<!DOCTYPE html> 
<head
    <link href=
"https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^1.0/dist/tailwind.min.css" 
          rel="stylesheet"
</head
  
<body class="text-center"
<center>
    <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold">
        GeeksforGeeks
    </h1
    <b>Tailwind CSS overscroll-behavior-y Class</b
    <div class="flex">
    <div class="overscroll-contain bg-green-200 p-4 
                mx-24 w-1/3 text-justify">
      This portal has been created to provide well written,   
      well thought and well explained solutions for selected   
      questions. An IIT Roorkee alumnus and founder of   
      GeeksforGeeks. He loves to solve programming problems  
      in most efficient ways. Apart from GeeksforGeeks, he   
      has worked with DE Shaw and Co. as a software developer   
      and JIIT Noida as an assistant professor.
    </div
    <div class="overscroll-behavior-y-none overflow-y-scroll 
                bg-green-400 p-2 w-1/4 h-24">
      This is a smaller element that is also 
      scrollable. The overscroll behavior 
      can be used to control if the main 
      content behind would scroll when this 
      element's vertical boundary is reached.
    </div>
    </div>
</center>
</body
  
</html>


Output:

Overscroll-behavior-x: This class used to set the behavior of the browser when the horizontal boundary of a scrolling area is reached. This can be used in websites where there are multiple scrolling areas and scrolling one area does not affect the page as a whole.

overscroll-x-auto:  It is used to set the scrolling behavior on the x-axis to default on all the elements. The whole page will scroll even if the boundary of the element is reached. It is the default value.

Syntax:

<element class="overscroll-x-auto">...</element>

Example:

HTML




<!DOCTYPE html> 
<head
    <link href=
"https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^1.0/dist/tailwind.min.css" 
          rel="stylesheet"
</head
  
<body class="text-center"
<center>
    <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold">
        GeeksforGeeks
    </h1
    <b>Tailwind CSS overscroll-behavior-x Class</b
    <div class="flex">
    <div class="overscroll-contain bg-green-200 p-4 
                mx-24 w-1/3 text-justify">
      This portal has been created to provide well written,   
      well thought and well explained solutions for selected   
      questions. An IIT Roorkee alumnus and founder of   
      GeeksforGeeks. He loves to solve programming problems  
      in most efficient ways. Apart from GeeksforGeeks, he   
      has worked with DE Shaw and Co. as a software developer   
      and JIIT Noida as an assistant professor.
    </div
    <div class="overscroll-behavior-x-auto overflow-x-scroll 
                bg-green-400 p-2 w-1/4 h-24">
      This is a smaller element that is also 
      scrollable. The overscroll behavior 
      can be used to control if the main 
      content behind would scroll when this 
      element's vertical boundary is reached.
    </div>
    </div>
</center>
</body
  
</html>


Output:

overscroll-x-contain: It is used to set the scrolling behavior on the x-axis to default only on the element used. No scroll-chaining would occur on the neighboring scrolling areas and the elements behind will not scroll.

Syntax:

<element class="overscroll-x-contain">...</element>

Example:

HTML




<!DOCTYPE html> 
<head
    <link href=
"https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^1.0/dist/tailwind.min.css" 
          rel="stylesheet"
</head
  
<body class="text-center"
<center>
    <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold">
        GeeksforGeeks
    </h1
    <b>Tailwind CSS overscroll-behavior-x Class</b
    <div class="flex">
    <div class="overscroll-contain bg-green-200 p-4 
                mx-24 w-1/3 text-justify">
      This portal has been created to provide well written,   
      well thought and well explained solutions for selected   
      questions. An IIT Roorkee alumnus and founder of   
      GeeksforGeeks. He loves to solve programming problems  
      in most efficient ways. Apart from GeeksforGeeks, he   
      has worked with DE Shaw and Co. as a software developer   
      and JIIT Noida as an assistant professor.
    </div
    <div class="overscroll-behavior-x-contain overflow-x-scroll 
                bg-green-400 p-2 w-1/4 h-24">
      This is a smaller element that is also 
      scrollable. The overscroll behavior 
      can be used to control if the main 
      content behind would scroll when this 
      element's vertical boundary is reached.
    </div>
    </div>
</center>
</body
  
</html>


Output:

overscroll-x-none: It is used to prevent scroll-chaining on the x-axis on all elements. The default scroll overflow behavior is also prevented.

Syntax:

<element class="overscroll-x-none">...</element>

Example:

HTML




<!DOCTYPE html> 
<head
    <link href=
"https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss@^1.0/dist/tailwind.min.css" 
          rel="stylesheet"
</head
  
<body class="text-center"
<center>
    <h1 class="text-green-600 text-5xl font-bold">
        GeeksforGeeks
    </h1
    <b>Tailwind CSS overscroll-behavior-x Class</b
    <div class="flex">
    <div class="overscroll-contain bg-green-200 p-4 
                mx-24 w-1/3 text-justify">
      This portal has been created to provide well written,   
      well thought and well explained solutions for selected   
      questions. An IIT Roorkee alumnus and founder of   
      GeeksforGeeks. He loves to solve programming problems  
      in most efficient ways. Apart from GeeksforGeeks, he   
      has worked with DE Shaw and Co. as a software developer   
      and JIIT Noida as an assistant professor.
    </div
    <div class="overscroll-behavior-x-none overflow-x-scroll 
                bg-green-400 p-2 w-1/4 h-24">
      This is a smaller element that is also 
      scrollable. The overscroll behavior 
      can be used to control if the main 
      content behind would scroll when this 
      element's vertical boundary is reached.
    </div>
    </div>
</center>
</body
  
</html>


Output:



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