Hello stackoverflow users,
Today I am using the overflow:scroll; property so I can hide all content but allow users to see it with a scroll bar.
See below picture:
You can see that the scroll bars appear even when not needed. Is there a way I can hide the scroll bar until needed, ie when there is actually overflowing content. It is a cosmetic issue for me as the scroll bar at the moment are naturally locked since there is no overflowing content, so why display it (I would prefer it not to be displayed just in case others have different opinions).
Regards
You can use overflow:auto instead of overflow:scroll
With overflow:scroll http://jsfiddle.net/0wekc9p2/1/
with overflow:auto http://jsfiddle.net/0wekc9p2/2/
I would suggest you to set overflow property to auto. or remove the property altogether if it is not inherited.
In your CSS put this code within body tag
body {
overflow:hidden
}
Related
I'm adding the overflow-y parameter to "scroll" in my css in order to have scrolling bar in case of overflow..
My problem is that if the content is not overflowing - i'm still having the blank scroll bar.
How can i set the overflow to show the scrolling bar only when needed ?
You can set it to auto
overflow-y : auto;
It will only show scroll bar in case of overflow.
Refer : What browsers support `overflow-y`?
as mentioned before, the way to do this is by setting:
overflow-y: auto
When setting the property to auto, the browser determines how to handle the content, but generally, the scrollbar appears when it is required.
You would greatly benefit from learning more about the overflow property. There is a great article here that explains it nicely.
I have a div that has a lot of content and hence scrolls.. How can I hide the scrollbar such that it is not visible. EDIT: I do want scrolling to work! So.. Scrolling with no scrollbar?
eg
.scrolling_div {
overflow:auto;
/*something else to hide the scrollbar?*/
}
Ok, I spent sometime to write minimal code.
Check DEMO. Mouse over the div and scroll to see the scroller.
Note that this using an external plugin to listen to mousewheel event.
DEMO page for the plugin
overflow:hidden should hide the scrollbar.
.scrolling_div {
overflow: hidden;
}
overflow can take any one of the below values,
visible
Default value. Content is not clipped, it may be rendered outside the content box.
hidden
The content is clipped and no scrollbars are provided.
scroll
The content is clipped and desktop browsers use scrollbars, whether or not any content is clipped. This avoids any problem with scrollbars appearing and disappearing in a dynamic environment.Printers may print overflowing content.
auto
Provide scrollbars if content overflows.
Reference
overflow: auto; means "show a scrollbar if necessary". Change it to overflow: hidden; to disable scrolling.
EDIT: Okay, you want to make a custom scrollbar. Then see this sample jsFiddle for how to get started - it includes mouse wheeling and dragging of the scrollbar.
You can try this:
html {
overflow: hidden;
}
it will remove the scrollbar from all the window.
Otherwise if you need it only on a specific div:
.scrolling_div {
overflow: hidden;
}
Use a wrapper which covers the element you want to be scrollable without a scrollbar, and let the wrapper be narrower than the element to scroll, in the horizontal basis. This is what I mean: http://jsfiddle.net/FlagelloDiDio/EdgTt/
It really depends on what you are going for. see here
overflow:hidden; may be what you want.
If you want to dip into css3, you can play with overflow-x and overflow-y for even more options.
The only way to hide the scrollbar is to make the content non-scrollable and just cut off if it exceeds the height (overflow: hidden). Honestly, why would you want to have a page that is scrollable that doesn't have a scrollbar? That would confuse the heck out of any visitors. There's no way you can do this with CSS.
As far as customizing the scrollbar, there are JavaScripts out there to do that. But make sure that if the user has it disabled, they can still properly scroll the page without it.
I have a DIV section with the css
#all_messages{
position:inherit;
overflow:auto;
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
I want to make it scroll inside the page which i did with the overflow but i don't want an extra scrollbar on the page, i would like native browser's scrollbar to control that not one scrollbar just for that section
Ok so in the picture you can see i have two scrollbars i want to remove the inner scrollbar and have it controlled by the browser's native scrollbar
I think what you want to do is make all the other elements on the page position:fixed. If the content in the remaining section overflows, the browser bar will appear automatically. You must also remove the overflow:auto property from that div, so that it won't create an inner scroll as well.
Use overflow: hidden. This will restrict it and not show any scroll bars.
When I was studying the overflow property's values, I came across these two values: auto and scroll, which adds scrollbar(s) if the content overflows the element.
Could someone please explain me whats the difference between them?
Auto will only show a scrollbar when any content is clipped.
Scroll will however always show the scrollbar even if all content fits and you cant scroll it.
overflow: scroll will hide all overflowing content and cause scroll bars to appear on the element in question. If the content does not overflow, the scrollbars will still be visible, but disabled.
overflow: auto is very similar, but the scrollbars only appear when the content is overflowing.
There is a similar explanation of this here, with some screenshots to illustrate the point.
Take a look at CSS Tricks.
Auto will show scrollbar if and only if the content overflows; but scroll will always show the scrollbar, whether the content is overflowing or not.
Adding a point to the answer, Overflow:auto not worked in IE7 when position of the container is absolute Position relative overflow IE7. But setting Overflow:scroll works
overflow: scroll will show both horizontal and vertical scrollbar even when you don't need one or other. while, overflow: auto will show the scrollbar which your div needs. so basically auto will help you to get rid of both scollbar.
Here is more of that:
https://css-tricks.com/the-css-overflow-property/
In Windows, overflow: scroll will always show the scrollbar and overflow: auto will show the scrollbar only if the content is overflowing. In macOS, the overflow: scroll and overflow: auto will always show the scrollbar if the content is overflowing. Tested in Chrome. I highly recommend using overflow: auto as it works the same way and does not generate problems in windows
Is there a way to tell Safari / Webkit browsers and Firefox to scroll an element or a page while overflow is set to "hidden"?
I'm using overflow: hidden on the body-Element and it works for Opera only.
Any ideas?
Pretty sure this is one of those cases where Opera does it differently from everyone else. Overflow is supposed to prevent scrolling if its value is hidden, not just hide scroll bars.
If you really want to hide the scroll bars, but still want to scroll the window or its contents, you can use JavaScript / DOM script to do it.
Sorry but you have been mistaken, the overflow-x:hidden or overflow-y:hidden must be applied to the html element, not body element. But in just the case I have googled it and found these
link tell me if they did any help.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/javascript/3560359.htm
http://www.artmov.com/dev/snippets/apply-overflow-x-overflow-y-to-body-in-ie7-ie6-84/
(In this link I found the above mentioned statement.)
http://haslayout.net/css/Document-Scrollbars-Overflow-Inconsistency
In this link I found that you should apply directly overflow value in the <HTML> tag.
Hope it works!
If you're setting overflow: hidden on any element, you're explicitly telling it that the contents should be hidden, and therefore can't be scrolled to. If you want the contents to be scrollable, then you need to use overflow: auto. Why would you ever want to scroll something you're telling the browser it should not scroll? It's contradictory.