diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 52076e6..6c758a1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ reshuffle.
 | Drag a group | Moves the group and everything inside it |
 | Drag on empty canvas | Rubber-band selection (hold <kbd>Shift</kbd> to add) |
 | Middle- or right-drag | Pan |
+| Wheel over a node | Scroll contents that are taller than the node |
 | <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+wheel | Zoom around the pointer |
 
 **Markdown in text nodes**: headings, bold/italic/strikethrough, inline and
diff --git a/src/view.rs b/src/view.rs
index 80d985c..ed758e2 100644
--- a/src/view.rs
+++ b/src/view.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ use std::collections::HashMap;
 
 use eframe::egui::{
     self, Align, Color32, CornerRadius, CursorIcon, LayerId, Layout, PointerButton, Pos2, Rect,
-    RichText, Sense, Shape, Stroke, StrokeKind, TextEdit, UiBuilder, Vec2, epaint, pos2, vec2,
+    RichText, Sense, Shape, Stroke, StrokeKind, TextEdit, UiBuilder, Vec2,
+    containers::scroll_area::ScrollSource,
+    epaint, pos2, vec2,
 };
 use eframe::emath::TSTransform;
 
@@ -240,6 +242,8 @@ pub struct CanvasView {
     pub show_grid: bool,
     pub snap_to_grid: bool,
     pub previews: PreviewCache,
+    /// How far each node's contents are scrolled, and how far they can go.
+    body_scroll: HashMap<String, BodyScroll>,
     /// Screen rectangle the canvas was drawn in last frame, `None` until the
     /// canvas has been laid out once.
     viewport: Option<Rect>,
@@ -247,6 +251,15 @@ pub struct CanvasView {
     pending_fit: Option<PendingFit>,
 }
 
+/// The scroll position of one node's contents.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Default)]
+struct BodyScroll {
+    /// Canvas units the contents are scrolled down by.
+    offset: f32,
+    /// The largest useful `offset`: zero when everything already fits.
+    max: f32,
+}
+
 /// A framing request that has to wait for the first frame: until the canvas
 /// has been laid out, its size and position on screen are still a guess.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
@@ -277,6 +290,7 @@ impl CanvasView {
             show_grid: true,
             snap_to_grid: false,
             previews: PreviewCache::default(),
+            body_scroll: HashMap::new(),
             viewport: None,
             pending_fit: None,
         }
@@ -546,6 +560,12 @@ impl CanvasView {
     ) -> ViewOutput {
         let mut output = ViewOutput::default();
         self.selection.prune(&doc.canvas);
+        // Deleted nodes leave a scroll position behind. The map only ever holds
+        // nodes that have been on screen, so it outgrows the canvas only once
+        // one of them is gone.
+        if self.body_scroll.len() > doc.canvas.nodes.len() {
+            self.body_scroll.retain(|id, _| doc.canvas.node(id).is_some());
+        }
         if self
             .editing
             .as_ref()
@@ -623,11 +643,16 @@ impl CanvasView {
             handle_used,
             &mut output,
         );
+        // Last: which node the wheel belongs to is only known once they have
+        // all been drawn.
+        self.scroll_hovered_body(&scene);
         output
     }
 
     // -- input ------------------------------------------------------------
 
+    /// Panning is a drag; the wheel is left to the nodes (see
+    /// [`Self::scroll_hovered_body`]), and only zooms with the modifier held.
     fn handle_pan_and_zoom(&mut self, ui: &egui::Ui, background: &egui::Response) {
         if background.dragged_by(PointerButton::Middle)
             || background.dragged_by(PointerButton::Secondary)
@@ -642,15 +667,43 @@ impl CanvasView {
         let Some(pointer) = ui.input(|i| i.pointer.latest_pos()) else {
             return;
         };
-        let (zoom_delta, scroll) = ui.input(|i| (i.zoom_delta(), i.smooth_scroll_delta));
+        let zoom_delta = ui.input(|i| i.zoom_delta());
         if zoom_delta != 1.0 {
             let factor = (self.to_global.scaling * zoom_delta).clamp(MIN_ZOOM, MAX_ZOOM)
                 / self.to_global.scaling;
             let anchor = pointer.to_vec2();
             self.to_global.translation = anchor + (self.to_global.translation - anchor) * factor;
             self.to_global.scaling *= factor;
-        } else if scroll != Vec2::ZERO {
-            self.to_global.translation += scroll;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Scrolls the contents of the node under the pointer by the wheel.
+    ///
+    /// This runs *after* the nodes have been drawn, because that is when it is
+    /// known which node the pointer is over and how far its contents reach. The
+    /// wheel does nothing anywhere else: the canvas is panned by dragging, and
+    /// egui hands the wheel to zoom instead as soon as the modifier is held, so
+    /// there is nothing here to share it with.
+    fn scroll_hovered_body(&mut self, ui: &egui::Ui) {
+        let delta = ui.input(|i| i.smooth_scroll_delta.y);
+        if delta == 0.0 {
+            return;
+        }
+        let scale = self.to_global.scaling;
+        let Self {
+            hovered_node,
+            body_scroll,
+            ..
+        } = self;
+        let Some(scroll) = hovered_node.as_ref().and_then(|id| body_scroll.get_mut(id)) else {
+            return;
+        };
+        // The offset is in canvas units, so the wheel has to cross the zoom to
+        // move the text by as much as it would anywhere else on screen.
+        let moved = (scroll.offset - delta / scale).clamp(0.0, scroll.max);
+        if moved != scroll.offset {
+            scroll.offset = moved;
+            ui.ctx().request_repaint();
         }
     }
 
@@ -781,6 +834,7 @@ impl CanvasView {
                     } else {
                         let mut body = scene.new_child(
                             UiBuilder::new()
+                                .id_salt(("body", &id))
                                 .max_rect(inner)
                                 .layout(Layout::top_down(Align::Min)),
                         );
@@ -791,9 +845,14 @@ impl CanvasView {
                             cache: &mut self.previews,
                             scale,
                         };
-                        if let Some(target) =
-                            nodes::render_body(&mut body, &doc.canvas.nodes[index], &mut ctx)
-                        {
+                        // Contents taller than the node scroll instead of being
+                        // cut off.
+                        let scroll = self.body_scroll.get(&id).copied().unwrap_or_default();
+                        let shown = body_scroll_area(scroll.offset).show(&mut body, |ui| {
+                            nodes::render_body(ui, &doc.canvas.nodes[index], &mut ctx)
+                        });
+                        self.body_scroll.insert(id.clone(), measure(&shown));
+                        if let Some(target) = shown.inner {
                             output.open_target = Some(target);
                         }
                     }
@@ -943,16 +1002,24 @@ impl CanvasView {
             return;
         };
         let mut buffer = text.clone();
-        let mut body = scene.new_child(UiBuilder::new().max_rect(inner));
+        let id = doc.canvas.nodes[index].id.clone();
+        let mut body = scene.new_child(UiBuilder::new().id_salt(("editor", &id)).max_rect(inner));
         body.set_clip_rect(inner.intersect(scene.clip_rect()));
-        let response = body.add(
-            TextEdit::multiline(&mut buffer)
-                .frame(egui::Frame::NONE)
-                .desired_width(inner.width())
-                .desired_rows(1)
-                .hint_text(RichText::new("Markdown…").color(palette.text_muted))
-                .font(egui::FontId::proportional(14.0)),
-        );
+        // Text longer than the node scrolls, the same as it does when read, and
+        // from where reading left off.
+        let scroll = self.body_scroll.get(&id).copied().unwrap_or_default();
+        let shown = body_scroll_area(scroll.offset).show(&mut body, |ui| {
+            ui.add(
+                TextEdit::multiline(&mut buffer)
+                    .frame(egui::Frame::NONE)
+                    .desired_width(ui.available_width())
+                    .desired_rows(1)
+                    .hint_text(RichText::new("Markdown…").color(palette.text_muted))
+                    .font(egui::FontId::proportional(14.0)),
+            )
+        });
+        self.body_scroll.insert(id.clone(), measure(&shown));
+        let response = shown.inner;
         if self.focus_editor {
             response.request_focus();
             self.focus_editor = false;
@@ -1507,6 +1574,34 @@ pub fn curve_of(canvas: &Canvas, edge: &Edge) -> Option<[Pos2; 4]> {
     ))
 }
 
+/// The scroll area a node's contents live in, so a card that holds more than
+/// it can show scrolls rather than swallowing the rest, positioned at `offset`.
+///
+/// Only the bar scrolls it by itself. The wheel is routed by
+/// [`CanvasView::scroll_hovered_body`] instead: a scroll area cannot see the
+/// wheel from in here, because it asks `Context::rect_contains_pointer`, which
+/// only answers for a layer egui knows as an area — and the canvas layer is a
+/// bare sublayer.
+/// Dragging is left out too, so that a drag inside a node moves the node and a
+/// touch drag on its text does not scroll instead.
+/// Where a scroll area ended up: the offset it settled on (the bar may have
+/// been dragged, or the text cursor may have pulled it along) and how far it
+/// could still go.
+fn measure<R>(shown: &egui::scroll_area::ScrollAreaOutput<R>) -> BodyScroll {
+    let max = (shown.content_size.y - shown.inner_rect.height()).max(0.0);
+    BodyScroll {
+        offset: shown.state.offset.y.clamp(0.0, max),
+        max,
+    }
+}
+
+fn body_scroll_area(offset: f32) -> egui::ScrollArea {
+    egui::ScrollArea::vertical()
+        .scroll_source(ScrollSource::SCROLL_BAR)
+        .vertical_scroll_offset(offset)
+        .auto_shrink([false, false])
+}
+
 /// The side of `rect` closest to `point`.
 pub fn nearest_side(rect: Rect, point: Pos2) -> Side {
     let candidates = [