Topic

CSS overflow and clipping

The CSS overflow properties and the painting rule behind them, which decide whether content drawn beyond an element's padding box is clipped, made scrollable, or left visible.

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A modal body's 70vh scroll container clips options a headless dropdown already rendered

A headless dropdown panel is an ordinary painted element, so a modal body set to overflow-y: auto decides how much of it the user ever sees. The escape has to change which element does the clipping.

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