An example of how to make a div vertically scrollable with the CSS overflow property

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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: auto;

text-align: justify;

padding: 20px;

}

</style>

</head>

<body>

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into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in

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 search for 'lorem ipsum'

will uncover many web sites still in their infancy.

</div>

</body>

</html>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      div.scroll {
        background-color: #fed9ff;
        width: 600px;
        height: 150px;
        overflow: auto;
        text-align: justify;
        padding: 20px;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h2>W3docs</h2>
    <div class="scroll">
      Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. 
      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 
      specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap 
      into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in 
      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 search for 'lorem ipsum' 
      will uncover many web sites still in their infancy.
    </div>
  </body>
</html>