# Rising scroll threshold in code blocks (or complete unfolding)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rising-scroll-threshold-in-code-blocks-or-complete-unfolding/34260
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [October 8, 2015, 9:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rising-scroll-threshold-in-code-blocks-or-complete-unfolding/34260 "2015-10-08T09:45:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@firegurafiku](https://meta.discourse.org/u/firegurafiku)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2015, 9:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rising-scroll-threshold-in-code-blocks-or-complete-unfolding/34260/1 "2015-10-08T09:45:51Z")
When you insert a Markdown code block (` ````) into your message, it receives automatic vertical scrollbar if its content is long enough. But I don’t mind having long listings in messages and want to display code inline until it reaches, say, 200 lines long. Is there a way to control this threshold?
Alternatively, if no such threshold can be set, is it possible to completely unroll the listing regardless its length? I tried setting `display: table` to code tag, it worked, but block width got shrink to content width too. So I tried setting `width: 100%`, but that resulted in having horizontal scrollbar emerged. I’m not that skilled in CSS, could anybody please help me?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2015, 11:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rising-scroll-threshold-in-code-blocks-or-complete-unfolding/34260/2 "2015-10-08T11:48:27Z")
You want to adjust and/or remove the max-height attribute of `pre code`
So in your Admin \> Customize \> CSS/HTML \> CSS area, put
```plaintext
pre code {
max-height: 800px;
}
```
You can change 800px to any number really, it simply implies when the code block reaches that amount of space, start showing the scrollbar.
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### Author:  [@firegurafiku](https://meta.discourse.org/u/firegurafiku)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2015, 12:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rising-scroll-threshold-in-code-blocks-or-complete-unfolding/34260/3 "2015-10-08T12:16:14Z")
Thanks! That works like a charm and is exactly that I wanted.
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### Author:  [@simonmic](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simonmic)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rising-scroll-threshold-in-code-blocks-or-complete-unfolding/34260/4 "2024-04-01T21:27:35Z")
Or - scattershot, but working so far:
```plaintext
pre code {max-height:none;}
pre {max-height:none;}
```
My outer pre has a max height of 2000px, so needed adjusting also.