The example at http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_overflow works with me both in Firefox and IE7. It's a nice page where you can see the effect of your changes immediately.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_overflow.asp is the page that calls this and other examples.
Hope you find it with these examples to help you.
Kees
Greetings. Heres the problem. I am trying to create a element that is 450w and 300h, and the overflow will scroll. This works fine for Firefox, however IE is not recognizing this at all. here is the css:
#box .content {
height: 300px;
max-width: 450px;
color: #0054a6;
padding-top: 15px;
padding-left: 10px;
overflow: scroll;
display: block;
}
Can anyone help me out? I'm kinda a CSS noob so any help would be appreciated.

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