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💧 To spill over 😊 To be full of 🌊 A spill 💻 Content outside box
overflow

overflow

5 3.9
Content that goes outside the visible area of a box on a screen
  • noun
  • /ˌoʊvərˈfloʊ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : desbordamiento
  • In web design, using the appropriate CSS property for overflow ensures that any content that extends beyond the visible area is handled properly.
  • buffer overflow
  • integer overflow
  • overflow and underflow

Examples

  • The overflow attribute in CSS determines how excess content is displayed when it exceeds the container's size.

  • Make sure that if you are using a solution like this, there is no overflow anywhere else in your home.

    Blog text (20)

  • Overflow-x and overflow-y allow you to control overflow in two separate directions of the container.

    Blog text (24)

  • The lesson focused on collecting and graphing data, measuring, computing proportions, ratios, and percents, and understanding capacity and capacity overflow.

    Academic text (2010)

  • If an element has too much content, it can cause overflow issues that the user cannot see without scrolling.

Compounds

overflow incontinence
  • Specialized
7.4

The bladder becomes too full and slowly leaks urine because it cannot empty

How Full

overflow
  • Specialized
5 3.9
to fill up
46 1.1
to fill
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

overflow singular
overflows plural

Morphology

overflow = flow (semi-transparent) = over + flow

The computing/UI sense applies the physical idea of 'flowing beyond limits' to content; it is a technical metaphor understandable but specialized.

Etymology

The computing sense of overflow keeps the simple idea of 'flowing over': content that does not fit a box 'flows over' its visible area. So the CSS overflow property is the rule that decides what happens to that extra content — hide it, cut it, or let a scrollbar show it.