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{{Compat}}

## Examples
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This entire section needs to be moved above the "Specifications" section.


### Preventing content from being hidden by a fixed header

A common use case for `scroll-padding` is when a page includes a fixed-position header.
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A common use case for `scroll-padding` is when a page includes a fixed-position header.
A common use case for `scroll-padding` is to prevent scrolling content from being hidden by a fixed-position header. This example demonstrates how to use `scroll-padding` for this purpose.

Without `scroll-padding`, content linked via fragment identifiers can be hidden beneath the header.
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Without `scroll-padding`, content linked via fragment identifiers can be hidden beneath the header.


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As it stands, this doesn't really demonstrate the use case very clearly. Can you expand the example to show more complete code and a live example perhaps? It doesn't have to be as elaborate as this example, but this is the kind of pattern you should ideally follow: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/scroll-target-group#basic_scroll-target-group_usage.

header {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
height: 60px;
width: 100%;
}

html {
scroll-padding-top: 60px;
}
```

## See also

- [CSS scroll snap](/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Guides/Scroll_snap)
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