CSS “overflow” culls “background-color”

Question

I\'m trying to style blocks of code for a website. The container div is set to overflow both vertically and horizontally. The problem is when it overflows horizontally, the zebr

Answer 1

I just added {float:left} to the div's whose backgrounds were being "culled" in my situation.

With this change the backgrounds and borders would extend with the overflowed text. So as I scroll horizontally the text is displayed uniformly with the same background and borders.

Before adding this piece of css, the background/border would not overflow beyond div, although the text would.