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CSS CSS Foundations The Box Model Width, Height and Overflow Properties

Posted by Nikos Kakavoulis
Nikos Kakavoulis
1,465 Points

Difficulty with last step of challenge

Can you point me to the right answer?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Width, Height and Overflow Properties</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="page.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
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style.css 
/* Complete the challenge by writing CSS below */

a {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 100px;
}

div {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  max-height: 150px;
  overflow: scroll;
}

3 Answers

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Nikos,

You're almost there. You just need to change:

overflow: scroll;

to:

overflow: auto;

Here's the info from w3schools.

Hope that helps

-Rich

Isaac Asante
Isaac Asante
4,752 Points
Isaac Asante
Isaac Asante
4,752 Points

Hi Nikos! The overflow property's value in your CSS should be set to auto and not scroll. So it must be like this:

overflow: auto;
Nikos Kakavoulis
Nikos Kakavoulis
1,465 Points
Nikos Kakavoulis
Nikos Kakavoulis
1,465 Points

thank you very much!