scroll-margin-block CSS property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2021.

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

Try it

scroll-margin-block: 0;
scroll-margin-block: 20px;
scroll-margin-block: 2em;
<section class="default-example" id="default-example">
  <div class="scroller">
    <div>1</div>
    <div id="example-element">2</div>
    <div>3</div>
  </div>
  <div class="info">Scroll »</div>
</section>
.default-example .info {
  inline-size: 100%;
  padding: 0.5em 0;
  font-size: 90%;
  writing-mode: vertical-rl;
}

.scroller {
  text-align: left;
  height: 250px;
  width: 270px;
  overflow-y: scroll;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  border: 1px solid black;
  scroll-snap-type: y mandatory;
}

.scroller > div {
  flex: 0 0 250px;
  background-color: rebeccapurple;
  color: white;
  font-size: 30px;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  scroll-snap-align: start;
}

.scroller > div:nth-child(even) {
  background-color: white;
  color: rebeccapurple;
}

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

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
scroll-margin-block
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 69 (Release date: 2018-09-04)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 68 (Release date: 2019-07-09)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 56 (Release date: 2018-09-25)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 15 (Release date: 2021-09-20)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 69 (Release date: 2018-09-04)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 68 (Release date: 2019-07-09)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 48 (Release date: 2018-11-08)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 15 (Release date: 2021-09-20)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 10 (Release date: 2019-08-22)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 69 (Release date: 2018-09-04)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 15 (Release date: 2021-09-20)
footnote Full support

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Full support
Full support

See also