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overscroll

noun

Etymology

From over- + scroll.

  1. derived from *skraudō✻
  2. derived from *skraudu✻ — “a shred”
  3. derived from escroe
  4. inherited from scrowle
  5. prefixed as overscroll — “over + scroll”

Definitions

  1. A feature where content being scrolled goes beyond its end point and bounces back, giving…

    A feature where content being scrolled goes beyond its end point and bounces back, giving the user visual feedback that the end has been reached.

    • Disabling overscroll When you scroll a web page in the Android browser or mobile Safari, you'll notice that you can scroll past the end of the page. When you let go, the page springs back to the end position.
    • You can also customize the overscroll effect of a ScrollView to mimic a behavior native to the corresponding platform (which still looks noticeably different from native components anyway, despite being similar in concept).

  2. To perform this kind of scrolling and bouncing effect.

    • A fling gesture can overscroll the content, before returning the content to the correct position.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overscroll. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA