Keep a tall section inside a local vertical scroller.
CSS: A bounded height and overflow auto keep long content from stretching the surrounding page.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Example</title>
<style>
.panel { height:80px; overflow-y:auto; } .content { height:240px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="panel"><div class="content">Tall content</div></div>
</body>
</html>Expected output EXAMPLE
At a 1000 × 800 CSS-pixel viewport, unless another size is stated: The panel shows an 80-pixel-high window onto 240 pixels of content. It scrolls independently; scrolling it down 40 pixels leaves the outer page in place.
Details
Save this complete fixture as example.html. The output describes layout or computed styles verified in Chromium. A bounded height and overflow auto keep long content from stretching the surrounding page.
Tested on Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS · · Chromium 141.0.7390.37 · libc6 2.39-0ubuntu8.9; Playwright 1.56.0
Test inputs, results and environment
The exact published code ran in a dedicated Linux test container with prepared inputs. Unprivileged snippet process, external networking disabled, read-only root filesystem, and a fresh temporary working directory. Fixtures and output records are isolated from the application database. Testing covers this example and its stated checks, not every input, operating system, or runtime version. The Linux container shares its host's kernel; this is not a native Windows test.
- Architecture / host kernel
- x86_64 / 6.18.54.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
- Snippet identity / locale
- uid=65534, gid=65534 (unprivileged) / C.UTF-8
- Interpreter invocation
Chromium: open example.html; execute the published browser assertions- Container image ID
sha256:32dc2d998158b6554c99b73b533f423696a0f3e31e8cbea9db10b5eee9a2fadd- Code SHA-256
f64d3b9121ba200e021b44a78f66ec8c2cb189538a2cf90458165f47290f82f1- Dependencies
- libc6 2.39-0ubuntu8.9; Playwright 1.56.0
Test input setup
These are the prepared inputs used by the test harness. See Details above for the prerequisites and how to run this example.
# No input files required.
Observed standard output
Expected output describes the rendered page. The standard-output record below is the browser test harness receipt; the additional assertions check the result and interactions.
Keep a tall section inside a local vertical scroller: browser checks passed.
Exit code: 0. Standard error: empty. Validation: Shape/content assertions. System-dependent values above are one recorded run.
Additional assertions that passed
Checks recorded by the test harness. Where Python assertions are shown, browser cases use Playwright and simulator cases may inspect pin transitions: result.stdout is captured output, work is the temporary directory, and Path is pathlib.Path. The harness also imports json and csv.
assert await page.locator('.panel').evaluate('(e)=>e.clientHeight===80 && e.scrollHeight===240')
await page.locator('.panel').evaluate('(e)=>e.scrollTop=40')
assert await page.locator('.panel').evaluate('(e)=>e.scrollTop')==40