HTML Horizontal Scrolling Navbar with Sub Menus - html

I have an intranet page that has a large navbar that causes the sub menus to display off the screen if the user has a small monitor. My idea was to have the navbar scroll but when I use overflow in the CSS a vertical scroll bar appears when the sub menus open. I want the sub menus to display OUTSIDE of the div that contains the navbar. I'm open for all ideas including reorganizing my page if I have to.
Sample HTML is:
<div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top">
<div class="container">
<div class="scrollmenu">
<li class="menu-item dropdown dropdown-submenu">
Some Text
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li class="menu-item dropdown dropdown-submenu">
<ul class="dropdown-menu scrollable-menu">
<li class="menu-item">
<a id="" class="pdf" href="#"></a>
<a id="" class="pdf" href="#"></a>
<a id="" class="pdf" href="#"></a>
<a id="" class="pdf" href="#"></a>
<a id="" class="pdf" href="#"></a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</li>
</div>
</div>
</div>
And the CSS I'm using is (I found this CSS on W3schools.com):
div.scrollmenu {
background-color: #333;
overflow: auto;
white-space: nowrap;
width: 50%;
}
div.scrollmenu a {
display: inline-block;
/*color: white;*/
text-align: center;
padding: 14px;
text-decoration: none;
}
div.scrollmenu a:hover {
background-color: #777;
}
The problem I'm having is that in order to get the scroll bar I have to use the overflow: auto setting in the CSS. But when I do that it causes the sub menus to appear in the same div which causes a vertical scroll bar to appear when a sub menu is displayed. Without the overflow setting the sub menus display outside of the div which is the desired behavior; but, of course, the scroll bars do not appear.
Help please.
FYI, I'm getting ready go home for the weekend and will followup with this on Monday.
Thanks in advance.

The scrolling nav bar is not a good design for a nav bar with sub menus. We decided to change the nav bar to an Accordion style of navigation.

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