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auto works like scroll except that it shows scrollbars only as needed

   
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
* .ex1 {
    overflow: auto;
  width: 100px;
  height: 30px;
  background: yellow;
  
}

</style>
</head>
<body>
  <div class="ex1"> this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. 
  this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. this is a test. 
  </div> 
</body>
</html>








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18.overflow auto, white space, nowrap
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