An example of how to make a div vertically scrollable

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div.scroll {
        background-color: #fed9ff;
        width: 600px;
        height: 150px;
        overflow-x: hidden;
        overflow-y: auto;
        text-align: center;
        padding: 20px;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>W3docs</h2>
    <div class="scroll">
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      Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s 
      when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type 
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      the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, 
      and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker 
      including versions of Lorem Ipsum. It is a long established fact that a 
      reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking 
      at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less 
      normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', 
      making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and 
      web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a 
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    </div>
  </body>
</html>