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Asked: 2026-06-14T05:29:17+00:00

I know there are a lot of post about overflow problem in FF (most

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I know there are a lot of post about overflow problem in FF (most for old version) or elsewhere but I can’t find something related to my example.

I tried this little piece of code which should produce a scrollbar : it works as expected in Chrome and IE but not in FireFox.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html><body>
 <div style="height: 25px; overflow: auto;">
   <div style="height: 100px;"></div>
 </div>
</body></html>

Here is an online example : http://jsfiddle.net/v7kqP/5/

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I am using FireFox 16.0.2. Am I doing something wrong or is it a FF bug ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Firefox won’t show the vertical scrollbar if it thinks there’s not enough space to show the whole thing. Clearly it thinks 25 pixels is not enough space to show a vertical scrollbar, in your case…

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