diff --git a/res/css/views/rooms/_EventTile.scss b/res/css/views/rooms/_EventTile.scss
index 99b74265c7..09a55aa014 100644
--- a/res/css/views/rooms/_EventTile.scss
+++ b/res/css/views/rooms/_EventTile.scss
@@ -212,19 +212,6 @@ $hover-select-border: 4px;
         text-decoration: none;
     }
 
-    /* all the overflow-y: hidden; are to trap Zalgos -
-       but they introduce an implicit overflow-x: auto.
-       so make that explicitly hidden too to avoid random
-       horizontal scrollbars occasionally appearing, like in
-       https://github.com/vector-im/vector-web/issues/1154
-        */
-    .mx_EventTile_content {
-        display: block;
-        overflow-y: hidden;
-        overflow-x: hidden;
-        margin-right: 34px;
-    }
-
     /* De-zalgoing */
     .mx_EventTile_body {
         overflow-y: hidden;
@@ -311,6 +298,18 @@ $hover-select-border: 4px;
     }
 }
 
+/* all the overflow-y: hidden; are to trap Zalgos -
+   but they introduce an implicit overflow-x: auto.
+   so make that explicitly hidden too to avoid random
+   horizontal scrollbars occasionally appearing, like in
+   https://github.com/vector-im/vector-web/issues/1154 */
+.mx_EventTile_content {
+    // display: block;
+    overflow-y: hidden;
+    overflow-x: hidden;
+    margin-right: 34px;
+}
+
 .mx_RoomView_timeline_rr_enabled {
 
     .mx_EventTile:not([data-layout=bubble]) {