How to create horizontal swipeable menu without scrollbar? - html

Question

I want to have a swipeable horizontal menu on my mobile website, just like Google uses on it's results page. I created one with basic html/css, which works fine but I cannot get rid of the scroll bar...
Here's the code:
<div style=" -ms-overflow-style: -ms-autohiding-scrollbar; -webkit-user-select: none; display: block; height: 50px; overflow-y: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; overflow-x: scroll;">
<div style="display: inline-block; position: relative; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden;">
<div style="display: inline-block; height: 40px; text-align: center; padding: 0 16px;">ITEM</div>
<div style="display: inline-block; height: 40px; text-align: center; padding: 0 16px;">ITEM</div>
<div style="display: inline-block; height: 40px; text-align: center; padding: 0 16px;">ITEM</div>
<div style="display: inline-block; height: 40px; text-align: center; padding: 0 16px;">ITEM</div>
<div style="display: inline-block; height: 40px; text-align: center; padding: 0 16px;">ITEM</div>
<div style="display: inline-block; height: 40px; text-align: center; padding: 0 16px;">ITEM</div>
<div style="display: inline-block; height: 40px; text-align: center; padding: 0 16px;">ITEM</div>
</div>
</div>
Any idea?
See my menu here
See Google example here

Answer 1

You can make a container <div> element that holds the scrolling <div>.
This parent <div> style can be set to: oveflow:hidden and its size smaller than its child <div> -of which the style is set to overflow:scroll.
This way the scrollbar is hidden and you need not worry about doing this with JavaScript; however:
It is recommended that you create your CSS classes in either a <style> element, or a separate CSS file in which you can define these classes, and use these classes in your HTML like: <div class="menu">...
Using inline CSS as per the example above renders unmanageable code, especially in larger projects
Update
Here's a full example:
div
{
box-sizing:border-box;
-moz-box-sizing:border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;
}
.scrollHider
{
display:inline-block;
width:302px;
height:162px;
overflow:hidden;
border:1px solid #AAA;
}
.menuBox
{
width:315px;
height:175px;
overflow:scroll;
white-space:nowrap;
}
.menuSection
{
width:300px;
height:160px;
display:table-cell;
overflow:hidden;
}
.menuItem
{
width:300px;
height:40px;
text-align:center;
padding:10px;
border:1px solid #AAA;
}
<div class="scrollHider">
<div class="menuBox">
<div class="menuSection">
<div class="menuItem">ITEM 1</div>
<div class="menuItem">ITEM 2</div>
<div class="menuItem">ITEM 3</div>
<div class="menuItem">ITEM 4</div>
</div>
<div class="menuSection">
<div class="menuItem">ITEM 5</div>
<div class="menuItem">ITEM 6</div>
<div class="menuItem">ITEM 7</div>
<div class="menuItem">ITEM 8</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Preview: (partial screenshot)
The preview (above) shows where it is scrolled to the right. Copy & paste the code above in an empty HTML file, save & open in web browser. You can also click it and use keyboard arrows to scroll if you're not using a phone/touch-screen.

Answer 2

First put this link in your head tags. it is from purecss.io which is a small library of css modules. I use pure in about 40% of my projects.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://yui.yahooapis.com/pure/0.6.0/pure-min.css">
Then put this into the body of your HTML page. I would recommend separating the css and js into their own files later.
<style>
.custom-menu-wrapper {
background-color: #808080;
margin-bottom: 2.5em;
white-space: nowrap;
position: relative;
}
.custom-menu {
display: inline-block;
width: auto;
vertical-align: middle;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
.custom-menu .pure-menu-link,
.custom-menu .pure-menu-heading {
color: white;
}
.custom-menu .pure-menu-link:hover,
.custom-menu .pure-menu-heading:hover {
background-color: transparent;
}
.custom-menu-top {
position: relative;
padding-top: .5em;
padding-bottom: .5em;
}
.custom-menu-brand {
display: block;
text-align: center;
position: relative;
}
.custom-menu-toggle {
width: 44px;
height: 44px;
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 3px;
right: 0;
display: none;
}
.custom-menu-toggle .bar {
background-color: white;
display: block;
width: 20px;
height: 2px;
border-radius: 100px;
position: absolute;
top: 22px;
right: 12px;
-webkit-transition: all 0.5s;
-moz-transition: all 0.5s;
-ms-transition: all 0.5s;
transition: all 0.5s;
}
.custom-menu-toggle .bar:first-child {
-webkit-transform: translateY(-6px);
-moz-transform: translateY(-6px);
-ms-transform: translateY(-6px);
transform: translateY(-6px);
}
.custom-menu-toggle.x .bar {
-webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(45deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(45deg);
transform: rotate(45deg);
}
.custom-menu-toggle.x .bar:first-child {
-webkit-transform: rotate(-45deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(-45deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(-45deg);
transform: rotate(-45deg);
}
.custom-menu-screen {
background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
-webkit-transition: all 0.5s;
-moz-transition: all 0.5s;
-ms-transition: all 0.5s;
transition: all 0.5s;
height: 3em;
width: 70em;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
z-index: -1;
}
.custom-menu-tucked .custom-menu-screen {
-webkit-transform: translateY(-44px);
-moz-transform: translateY(-44px);
-ms-transform: translateY(-44px);
transform: translateY(-44px);
}
#media (max-width: 62em) {
.custom-menu {
display: block;
}
.custom-menu-toggle {
display: block;
display: none\9;
}
.custom-menu-bottom {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
border-top: 1px solid #eee;
background-color: #808080\9;
z-index: 100;
}
.custom-menu-bottom .pure-menu-link {
opacity: 1;
-webkit-transform: translateX(0);
-moz-transform: translateX(0);
-ms-transform: translateX(0);
transform: translateX(0);
-webkit-transition: all 0.5s;
-moz-transition: all 0.5s;
-ms-transition: all 0.5s;
transition: all 0.5s;
}
.custom-menu-bottom.custom-menu-tucked .pure-menu-link {
-webkit-transform: translateX(-140px);
-moz-transform: translateX(-140px);
-ms-transform: translateX(-140px);
transform: translateX(-140px);
opacity: 0;
opacity: 1\9;
}
.pure-menu-horizontal.custom-menu-tucked {
z-index: -1;
top: 45px;
position: absolute;
overflow: hidden;
}
}
</style>
<div class="custom-menu-wrapper">
<div class="pure-menu custom-menu custom-menu-top">
Brand
<s class="bar"></s><s class="bar"></s>
</div>
<div class="pure-menu pure-menu-horizontal pure-menu-scrollable custom-menu custom-menu-bottom custom-menu-tucked" id="tuckedMenu">
<div class="custom-menu-screen"></div>
<ul class="pure-menu-list">
<li class="pure-menu-item">Home</li>
<li class="pure-menu-item">About</li>
<li class="pure-menu-item">Contact</li>
<li class="pure-menu-item">Blog</li>
<li class="pure-menu-item">GitHub</li>
<li class="pure-menu-item">Twitter</li>
<li class="pure-menu-item">Apple</li>
<li class="pure-menu-item">Google</li>
<li class="pure-menu-item">Wang</li>
<li class="pure-menu-item">Yahoo</li>
<li class="pure-menu-item">W3C</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<script>
(function (window, document) {
document.getElementById('toggle').addEventListener('click', function (e) {
document.getElementById('tuckedMenu').classList.toggle('custom-menu-tucked');
document.getElementById('toggle').classList.toggle('x');
});
})(this, this.document);
</script>