I have an overlay that I created with a width of 700px and height of 500px.
The contents of it will be quite long though and so the user will have to be able to scroll up/down within the overlay.
Could I get a suggestion on how to set this up taking into consideration the fact that scroll bars vary in width in each browser?
For example if I add 15px of padding-right to the overlay wrapper, it displays great in Firefox.
The contents will fit perfectly within the div and a horizontal bar will not appear.
However in another browser, the vertical scroll bar may be 20px wide, this would cause the contents to be forced to scroll horizontally, or, if I disable overflow-x, they would be cut off by 5px on the right.
How can I get it so that, no matter the browser, when the vertical scroll bar appears, the width of the overlay wrapper adjusts so that its contents can be displayed perfectly with no horizontal scroll bar?
Overflow property sounds like what you need: overflow:scroll;? But I guess I'm not sure what your concern of the different width of scrollbars is. How is it setup that this is variable?
Or a different look at your problem, put the div with your overlay wrapper inside another div and have the new div have the scroll property, thus making it so the first directly has nothing to do with scroll bars. Ex: [link]
EDIT: Looking at example you provided, do you want something like this? Trick is like I said above putting div around everything, but instead not giving it a width and having it display:inline-block; (display) so it fits the child (but the scroll wheel stays outside of the child).
EDIT 2: Note if you need it to center on screen, you must have another parent div surrounding the inline-block, and have the inline-block text-align:center;. (example)
use max-width and jquery scrollbar plugin jscrollpane.
You can define the scrollbar width and styles for each browser, if the need it.
http://jscrollpane.kelvinluck.com/
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I have a div that holds multiple draggable elements.
When I drag an elements to the right, the horizontal scroll bar appears and I can scroll the div. This is what it looks like:
However, when I drag the elements left, the horizontal scroll bar doesn't show. Example:
I have the overflow property set to auto.
I understand that this is the deafult behavior of the browser, and that not showing the scroll bar is "correct", however if anyone has any suggestions how to make the overflow also work when moving elements left, it would be greatly appreciated! TIA!
No. When you drag an element to the right you are increasing the page width and triggering a horizontal scrollbar. When you drag an element to the left, you are simply moving it off the page.
You might try dynamically increasing the page width based on how far the element has been dragged outside the left edge of the page.
The browser is working as designed.
How do I get vertical scrolling when a max height value is reached in percentage?
I do get vertical scrolling when I use height instead, but then I do get too much bottom space when the parent get very large, which I don't want, such that I tried max-height SEE THIS PEN and screenshot.
I try with max-height, no vertical scrolling appears, SEE THIS PEN and screenshot (btw: I notice in chrome the Scrollbar seems flickering when used)
Notes:
The vertical scrolling has to appear in the box (it's a popup box in
the original app)
I am testing in FF 25.
It works if I put the vertical scrolling on the outer panel but I can't put the scrollbar on the outer panel (.InfoPanel) as then my other absolute positioned stuff like the quick close and arrow aren't visible when scrolling.
I played with it a lot now, but don't seem to fix it. I think it's not possible and I am very currious what you think, or how you would solve it.
Hi everyone! First time posting on stackoverflow.
I was wondering if there was a way/how to stop the size of a container shifting when a scrollbar is added to it
like, if I take a div and slap overflow-y:scroll; into its style, it adds a nice and nifty scrollbar, but aligns all the dynamically positioning content inside of it to the left a little bit because the scrollbar changes the actual size of the content area?
I'm not great with web dev vocabulary, but I hope you understand what I mean.
I found that on iOS, adding overflow-y:scroll; also doesn't physically add a scroll bar and doesn't change the size of the container; all of the stuff inside of it stays centered
But if I add a scroll bar to a div with items inside of it positioned to a relative percentage, the size of the container will change and therefore all the content will move
tl;dr how do I keep my stuff in the dead center even after I add a scroll bar
I was thinking making it statically positioned but I want the horizontal height to stay relative
can I specify a static position for the x but not the y?
thanks.
you can use overflow-y:hidden;
I have centered a div on a page for a group project and while the div itself is centered, the websites contents are centered with the scroll bar in mind. What I mean by this is that the web page contents are centered so that the width of the screen is measured without the scroll bars width. So if the monitor was originally 100px wide, it gets read as 100-(scroll bar width) px wide. Unfortunately, this has caused my fixed position div to be a scroll bars width off center from the rest of the site and it looks pretty funky. Any way to fix that? Can't use jquery, can potentially use a little bit of JS.
Here's the link to my site so you can see what I'm talking about. http://51713941.nhd.weebly.com/index.html
Lets see some code.
This can normally be sorted out with css. Margin:auto
You should use the box model concept in css to style and place the content on the site
Again, the question seems rather vague.
I would like an element fixed to the top of the viewport, when the user scrolls down the page it remains at the top of the viewport... easy. If the window is narrower then 960px the horizontal scrollbars appear. If the window is scrolled horizontally I would like the content inside this fixed element to scroll with it.
Please check out the demo, the two green boxes should always line up. Make your window narrow and scroll horiz, notice how they no longer line up.
Is this possible without JavaScript? Should work in IE7+ and not totally break in IE6.
http://www.louiswalch.com/beta/t/_scrolltest4.html
I don’t think you can achieve that without JavaScript.
position: fixed means that the element is positioned relative to the viewport. You want that vertically, but you don’t want it horizontally. I don’t think there’s any way to achieve that in CSS.
You can't have position:fixed on an overflow scrolling content. You need to use JavaScript for this. i answered a similar question using jQuery at Fixed header inside scrolling block where a div is fixed even if content is scrolling by overflow.
Check working example at http://jsfiddle.net/VswxL/3/