<head>
<style>
div.scroll
{
background-color:#00FFFF;
width:40%;
height:200PX;
FLOAT: left;
margin-left: 5%;
padding: 1%;
overflow:scroll;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
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</body>
</html>
If you want to add a scroll bar using jquery the following will work. If your div had a id of 'mydiv' you could us the following jquery id selector with css property: