No, "overflow-y" is correct. There'd never be a reason for it to scroll horizontally since text will inherently reflow to fit the parent element by default, and any preformatted content should be in the appropriate tags that would add a scrollbar anyway - with "overflow" you'd just end up with an unnecessary, useless additional scrollbar taking up space... as I believe it currently does!

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