overlay over scrollbar - html

I'm sorry if the title is not very good, any suggestions are welcome.
The entire page is an iframe onto another website (in this case, jquery.com just for demo purposes). I have an overlay "Hello World", and if you click on the X it minimizes it (click again it will open it).
My issue in this case is that it covers the scrollbar on the right.
I assume the reason is I have a CSS positioning the sidebar at right:0, however since it's an iFrame it doesn't count the scrollbar.
What are my options for working around that?
I thought of giving it some extra space, but how do I know if the page really has a scrollbar, or how big the scrollbar is?
Is there a way to place the overlay at a position WITHIN the iframe instead?

There is no way to detect the remote page's height or even if a scrollbar is present or not. Your only option, besides moving the sidebar to the left, is detecting the browser's scrollbar width and permanently shifting the overlay off the right edge this amount.

yes. just set the right to 40 for example right: 40px;

There is an example here that shows you how to detect if an iframe has a scrollbar:
How can I detect a Scrollbar presence ( using Javascript ) in HTML iFrame?
And there is also an example here that measures the scrollbar width
http://4umi.com/web/javascript/scrollbar.php
Once you know these you can place your overlay however many pixels from the right

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How to stick icon to bottom of screen from within iFrame with CSS only?

I have an iFrame within a page and it has a chat-icon that should stick to the bottom of the screen (but of course it will have to remain in the iFrame when scrolled out of the view).
The iFrame stretches outside the main viewport and as it seems, the iFrame is only aware of the bottom of its own document/viewport which in my example resides below the bottom of the browser window. It is not aware of the bottom of the parent page which in this case is the bottom of the browser window..
The question is simply, is there a way to get this to work with CSS only from within the iFrame? I do have the option to post messages with i.e. page height down to the iFrame. I am trying to avoid Javascript solution to position the icon manually on scroll event, due to its flickeryness...
I'm unaware of any way to do this in a CSS only fashion as the iframe is going to be completely unaware of the larger page (and that page's viewport) because it's own viewport is the bounds of the iframe itself, and the screen.
I think the only way to do this is with javascript using postMessage to pass the viewport dimensions down into the iframe where you can adjust the bottom value. To avoid flickering, add a short transition to the icon CSS so it slides into the correct place.

Can't take a screenshot of entire div element (scroll chat div)

There is a div. In this div has a chat. This div has scroll bar. I want to take a screenshot of all this div content at once. I almost did it by changing the div height to 500% and overflow: visible, but I got a problem. In fact I got about a large part of the chat in the screenshot, but at some point the chat just disappeared with a long white space till the end of the image as shown below.
I took this screenshot using the Firefox's "Screenshot node" feature. And I tried all possible extensions you can imagine before it and none worked (they don't detect the div scroll, just the main page scroll). Anyways, I want a HTML/CSS solution if possible. I want to understand why it is not working.
As you can see, there a lot of white space, but there is a lot of more chat that was ignored by the print.
What could have happened?
You can use FastStone Capture if you want to get a screenshot of a scrolling window or anything with scroll bars. Use the Capture Scrolling Window <Ctrl + Alt + PrtSc> in manual mode.

vertical scrollbar missing

If you view this HTML css site in either 1024x768 resolution or on a mobile device, the content that extends vertically beyond the browser is hidden and there is no vert scrollbar to do so. Is there any way to force it?
www.marketbridge.net
thx
On Apple OS, scroll bars are never shown anymore. I often find this a nuisance also, but I guess MacOS/iOS users are used to this. You could make some flyover indication with JavaScript using scroll height and scrollposition, but I guess you're better consistently using a pagefooter. This way the user 'feels' there is still content.
Another way to achieve this is only the upper half of the last displayed line of text is displayed (through JavaScript). The same effect is reached by displaying a rectangle with increasing opacity (0 to 100%) over the bottom of the viewport that makes the bottom of the viewport seem to fade out. If you make sure the page's bottom padding is equal or greater than the gradient, you have a nice indication of continuation, and the good thing is you can do with pure HTML and css.

Create a frame for content without images/bg

I have a background that is a set of fairly complex gradients (done with CSS, not images). In the middle of the page is a fixed frame, and the content sits inside this frame. I can set overflow-y: auto on this frame to scroll the content, but I would like to be able to use the window to scroll instead.
Here is what the page looks like now:
I would like the scroll bar to be on the window instead. I can take the content outside of the frame and add margins as necessary, but the problem is that then the content will appear outside the frame. I could then cover it up on the top and bottom, but this is difficult/impossible because the background is not an image and is not solid.
Is there any way to have a transparent element at the top/bottom block text that scrolls under it? Can you somehow apply styles to content that overlaps?
Even the fanciest single-browser only solution that requires JavaScript is perfectly acceptable.
if all you're aiming at is hiding the scrollbar (and assuming you're ok with jQuery), i'd suggest to use something like slimScroll.
what's going on under the hood is simple: the designated container is assigned with overflow: hidden;, and attached with a hover handler - with the sole purpose of simulating a custom scrollbar in response to mouse-over events.
Try to explore jScrollPane features.
It's powerfull flexible JQuery plugin for working with scrollbars, possibly you will find solution with it.

difference between window.scrollbar and a particular frame.scrollbar

I have a div with a scrollbar in the main window who has also a scrollbar. So, if I use window.scrollbar then it will return the scrolling position of the main scrollbar or my div window's scrollbar? What I need to write if I want to know the position of both the scrollbars? Please explain so it will help me in understanding the stuffs such as frames and window.
window.scrollbar doesn't exist AFAIK, it may be some IE specific thing, but it's certainly not standard. window.scrollbars simply gives you information about whether or not the scrollbar is visible on the page.
You want, I believe, document.body.scrollTop which tells you how far the page is scrolled, or div.scrollTop on your div.