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Clipping

Clip children is a convenience toggle: flip it on and AutoLayout adds Unity’s RectMask2D to this element for you (and removes it when off), so children that exceed the element’s bounds are masked. It’s purely cosmetic — it never changes how children are sized or positioned.

The Clip children toggle highlighted in the Inspector's Child Layout section.
Clip children

Clip children

When on, adds a RectMask2D so children clip at this element's bounds. Cosmetic — it doesn't change layout. Off by default.

Enable Clip children to mask children at the element’s bounds.
Clip childrenEffect
Off (default)Children that overflow keep drawing outside the bounds.
OnAdds a RectMask2D so children clip at the element’s bounds.

Off (the default)

Children that exceed the parent’s size keep drawing — they just spill out visually. Useful for badges, popovers, and shadow effects that need to extend past their container.

On

Adds a RectMask2D to the GameObject. Anything outside the parent’s bounds is clipped. Purely cosmetic — clipping never changes how children are sized or positioned.

Scrolling

Clipping on its own has no scroll interaction. To scroll clipped content, turn the element into a scroll container (the Inspector shows a Turn into ScrollView button when Clip children is on), or use the dedicated components:

  • ScrollView — feature-rich scroll container with optional snap/inertia/elastic.
  • ListView — virtualised scrolling list for large datasets.
  • GridView — virtualised scrolling grid.
  • Carousel — paged horizontal scroller.
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