I am getting horizontal scroll on my HTML website layout all of a sudden and I cannot figure out how or why. Any tips?
This happens when an element's width is greater than the viewport width. This could be caused by text flowing outside of a container or another incorrectly sized element.
Good Fix
Use the inspector and start deleting elements one by one, eventually you'll delete an element that will remove the horizontal scroll. Note that you can CTRL-Z to undelete an element in the inspector. Once you've found the offending element you can inspect/adjust it's styles to fix the overflow.
Cheat Fix
Add overflow-x: hidden; styling to your body element.
This is not advisable though as it's not fixing the overflowing element, instead it's hiding the part that overflows.
Related
I am experiencing an odd issue and am wondering if it's a bug in the rendering engines - it occurs in WebKit and also Firefox that I've tested.
If you have a div that's fixed on the page and you add another div inside it and also set it to be fixed (to obtain a fixed header within a fixed popup), you can ensure that the header will remain visible even when the user scrolls the popup. Unless you set transform scale on the popup - doing that will break position:fixed and cause it to no longer fix to the top of the parent div and instead it will scroll along with the content. Is that expected behavior - how can I work around that?
JSFiddle
Well the transform: scale(x) will break the element out of the coordinate flow and thereby can not have a fixed position.
I'd recommend instead wrapping the text below #header in a constrained div with overflow: auto. A fixed child of a fixed ancestor just doesn't make that much sense, but I can see what you were going for.
Is there a way to make an element not contribute to parent overflow, but keep it visible? Let me clarify
There is a watermark-like logo to be applied to a page in the manner below. It is supposed to be positioned partly outside the main content (dashed blue line)
I'm not aware of the option to set an element background in such a manner that it would persist as the browser window is resized horizontally, so I've just added a <div> with the logo as its background and position:absolute with the necessary offset relative to main content container.
Previously, the page would not get a horizontal scrollbar as long as the browser was wider than W1. Now, with an additional "watermark" element added outside of the main content box, the scrollbar would appear whenever the browser is narrower than W2
Is there something obvious I'm missing? A background setting, or possibly a neat margin workaround/
Update:
I've added a rough jsfiddle to illustrate the issue
Unfortunately, just because you nested the "watermark" div and positioned it absolutely doesn't make it outside of the document. If you put it outside of the document, the page will scroll (as you see).
To me, the first solution I think of is to move the watermark outside of the "content" div and apply the watermark to its parent container. I'm guessing you haven't done that because you need it to be relative to the "content" div, but it's something to try.
Also, the reason it scrolls is because the document has been overflow. The quick fix, yet not recommended, is to use "overflow-x: hidden;" on the parent container of the "content" div.
It's harder to give you a solution since you've stripped the rest of your HTML, and some "fixes" may not be as applicable if your structure is complicated in certain ways.
Remember that the width of your elements is greater than the actual "width" it includes padding & margins, if you have padding on your div reduce the "width" by the equivalent amount.
does that make sense? if you post the actual css & html it might be easier to give you a more detailed answer
additionally could you not assign the image as the background of the actual body element and set it to centered?
I've had a play with the code and come up with a possible solution for you.
set
body{overflow-x:hidden;}
then add
#media all and (max-width: 400px)
{
body{overflow-x:auto; }
}
as soon as your screen is smaller than 400px (the width of the div) your overflow:hidden will be overridden and you'll be given you scroll bars.
at this point you may also want to reduce the width of your watermark.
I have a div, it has overflow:auto and I have content that has a set width to it, (6 photos in a row) when there is no scrollbar they are fine, however when the content goes to force overflow to add a scrollbar instead of adding the scrollbar width to the width of the current div it just takes the space from the inline element space, forcing it to cut off the last photo, and have a bunch of extra whitespace where the additional space is left over. I am using min-width on the wrapper of the div with overflow auto. Is there anyway to fix this?
There isn't really much you can do about this. A couple ideas:
Use overflow:scroll to force the scroll bar to always display. That way there will be no surprises; it will be consistent.
Compensate for the width of the (possible) scroll bar in your initial CSS. This, unfortunately, will have to be a guess. 30px or so should be plenty.
Another thing to consider is reworking your design. Page elements with overflow:auto/scroll can sometimes be useful, but I hear they can have usability problems on some touch devices, and well, scroll bars are ugly ;)
Is there a way to target html elements that I don't want to affect the width of the page?
In other words, those elements wouldn't trigger the horizontal scrollbar, if they were to leave the browser box.
You could use the CSS overflow: hidden to keep them from affecting your layout.
You can use overflow:hidden on the elements you don't want the scrollbar on.
You can also use overflow-x:hidden or overflow-y:hidden Reference
Checking other sites structures, the solution seems to be pretty simple:
Wrapping everything in a relative positioned container(with overflow:hidden) lets the container grow with the contents of the page, while not letting the elements show out of it's borders.
Example:
http://jsfiddle.net/LnNQJ/1/
I have a div which pops up into the middle of the screen and is populated with some arbitrary content. I need it to scroll if the content added doesn't fit within the space available.
The basic styling is left: 25%; width: 50%; max-height: 70%
If the screen is big enough it all works fine. In Firefox, if there's not enough space, it also works nicely, adding a vertical scrollbar to the division. But in IE, it adds an annoying and unrequired horizontal scrollbar, and I can't figure out a way to get rid of it.
You can see some screenshots of what I mean here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15633144/popup.html
Sorry I can't post the actual HTML, which certainly doesn't make this any easier! But I'm hopeful this is a standard problem which people have worked around before.
The usual solution posted on here plenty of times is overflow-x / overflow-y. But in some cases the div contents do actually need to scroll horizontally, so I can't use this technique.
First IE don't support max-height CSS property.
And the horizontal scrollbar will show up if some elements inside your container have a width overflowing. You probably have some elements inside with a width:100%. As IE adds random borders/margins here and there, the width of inside elements become larger than its container.
try looking here
CSS div element - how to show horizontal scroll bars only?
I'm afraid that because you said that sometimes you need to scroll then you will need horizontal scrollbars. Which if you hid them by overflow-x: hidden; wouldn't allow you to scroll. You could work a jQuery If statement and say if window.width was more than the width of your content, show the scrollbar, if not, then hide it!