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1 Answer
Ash Scott
435 PointsDepends.
The overflow property is used to control what happens to items overflowing their parent. Normally, you would use overflow: hidden to hide everything outside of the natural size of an element.
In answer to your question, it depends on what you declare the property on. Sometimes I add overflow-x: hidden to my body tag so that you have no sideways scrolling on the website. Sometimes you may need to do it for an element on the page. If you do need to do this, just be careful that something in your layout might be outside the natural width and height of the element you're applying the overflow: hidden to, and as a result, will be hidden.
Hope that makes sense?