scroll-margin-block

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2019.

The scroll-margin-block shorthand property sets the scroll margins of an element in the block dimension.

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Constituent properties

This property is a shorthand for the following CSS properties:

Syntax

css
/* <length> values */
scroll-margin-block: 10px;
scroll-margin-block: 1em 0.5em;

/* Global values */
scroll-margin-block: inherit;
scroll-margin-block: initial;
scroll-margin-block: revert;
scroll-margin-block: revert-layer;
scroll-margin-block: unset;

Values

<length>

An outset from the corresponding edge of the scroll container.

Description

The scroll-margin values represent outsets defining the scroll snap area that is used for snapping this box to the snapport. The scroll snap area is determined by taking the transformed border box, finding its rectangular bounding box (axis-aligned in the scroll container's coordinate space), then adding the specified outsets.

Formal definition

Initial valueas each of the properties of the shorthand:
Applies toall elements
Inheritedno
Computed valueas each of the properties of the shorthand:
Animation typeby computed value type

Formal syntax

scroll-margin-block = 
  <length>{1,2}

Specifications

Specification
CSS Scroll Snap Module Level 1
# propdef-scroll-margin-block

Browser compatibility

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