I searched this site and google and found no way to simply add a plain simple scrollbar to my webpage. Is there no such way? I'm rendering a web page and there is no scrollbar. Can't understand why the default behavior is faulty. Default is you want a scrollbar for overflow but no, with CSS everything has to be tricks and workarounds.
Are you probably looking for a way to always have a scrollbar present, also if the page is short enough to not have one?
Then, yes there is a way. You might wanna do:
html {
overflow-y: scroll;
}
I understand why one would do so.
It prevents jumps when navigating between pages, which have enough content to show a scrollbar and pages which do not.
Related
I recently imported CSS Bootstrap into my website, so that I could add a toolbar to it. All went well, except that the text of my website now cuts off at the bottom. I set the overflow of the body to scroll, to no avail. The website scrolls a little bit, but then the scroll bar stops before the end of the content. If you zoom out on the browser, you can see all of the content.
The home page is a fairly long chunk of code, especially if I include the bootstrap, so I am not inclined to copy it here. Have any of you encountered this, and do you remember / can you suggest how to rectify it?
Some of you suggested a link, and you're right. Here is the page in question: http://www.zipcodeconquest.com/home.php
In your CSS, try changing your body height to "auto". Just a guess without seeing your code or a screenshot...
look for a white-space:nowrap or white-space:pre property. Your container might have one of these styles and forces your text content to be displayed in a way that overlap it.
Developers made new checkout section on our website but the pages don't size to ipad or smart phone. There are checkout buttons and important elements on the pages that need to be seen by buyers, but they are being left off (pages cut off the right third of page) --
I've been researching briefly for a quick answer -- the rest of our site uses tables and this section uses css and divs only -- is that why it doesn't do it automatically? I'm not talking about media queries -- just the full page resizing to the screen width automatically...
I don't want to use scrollbars but even that solution at this point would give a visitor the ability to actually checkout on these pages...
Can anyone help? It would be greatly appreciated.. If it is more complex, that's fine, but I suspect something can be done to make the pages fit (and zoom if need be) or (gasp) scroll..fairly easily.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Ok, that section does not allow scrolling because is disabled from the css stylesheet.
You can get back the scrolling by editing the css. Look in the css file for the styles of .section. It will have a overflow: hidden; property. (it seem that is stored on file screen.css, line 435)
Replace it with overflow: auto;
You'll then be able to do horizontal scroll. But in the end, that is not a real solution. Since it seems you are not a coder, you need to get someone to recreate the styles of your website in order to make it actually responsive.
I recommend you to use on your website bootstrap, which can be used to create a responsive navigation.
I would like to prevent all forms of page scrolling in my HTML5 application. I have tried searching on SO and Google for a general answer for Prevent all scrolling mechanisms, but everything is very specific - like how to disable scrolling with touches, or with arrow keys, or the scrollbars themselves.
The reason I am looking for this is to be able to create a new div below the visible screen, and animate it up (and down. This MoonBase shows what I mean.), and I don't want the user to be able to scroll down to see it. Is this possible? Is there a meta tag I can set? Or CSS? - Or, am I taking the wrong approach to my animation? That is, would all my problems be fixed if I simply animated in from the side instead (and included the meta tag width=device-width)? Is that the closest way for me to get the desired behavior?
You don't need JavaScript, just use CSS. Set overflow: hidden;:
body {
overflow: hidden;
}
Per this blog post here (http://www.david-lewis.com/css/css-that-can-affect-performance-on-ipad-web-apps-or-phonegap/), there is a bug in iOS 5 that I have no idea on how to get around.
Essentially like the title says, if you have a section of your site that is scrolls (I'm using the new -webkit-overflow-scrolling), and if there is an iframe out of the viewport, it will not load it.
The blog post linked above says the following:
iFrames
What is it: Using iFrames in overflow:scroll elements to show things
like videos or maps What’s the symptom: If you have an iframe that is
outside of the viewport in an overflow: scroll element (especially
when using -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch) then it will not render
as you scroll to itWhat’s the cure: no idea, please send me the
answer
Does anyone know how to fix this? I've been looking all over the web for a cure, but it is no luck. It seems to be that if you click on the iframe, it will show it after the click.
This in my mind is a huge issue for people developing web-apps. Does anyone know of a fix?
Well, I hate leaving this as an official "answer", but as of time of posting, there is no fix...
I'd assume if you'd use JavaScript to extract the HTML from the iframe, put the code in the same spot, and somehow get the CSS to work with it too, it would work. But darn, that would be too much work to do on such a slow device like an iPhone.
From the Google Results page, the examples I saw were working only in IE and one case in Opera.
Is there any way this can be done consistently across all browsers?
Also, is there a difference between the main scrollbar of the browser (which appears across the whole page) and the scrollbar in a text area withing the page? Can I manipulate only the latter if not the former?
You can create your own scrollbars within a page using a combination of CSS and JavaScript. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/780674/scroll-bar-with-images.
However, rendering of the scrollbar outside the page is up to the browser.
WebKit recently added the ability to style the default scrollbars, but this still only applies within the page.
EDIT: It seems that MooScroll has managed to 'replace' the browser's main scrollbar by telling it there's nothing to scroll and then creating their own scrollbar at the right-most side of the window. Clever!
Steve
Steve had a good answer, but allow me to continue.
In IE 5.5-7 (but I think they're getting rid of it in 8), you could style the scrollbars with some proprietary MS CSS properties. I wouldn't recommend this.
Steve mentions that the scroll bar outside of the page is up to the browser. Whilst this is true, you could fake it by setting the body element to overflow: hidden and then placing a huge container in the HTML with height: 100%; width: 100%.
I wouldn't recommend you touch the user's scroll bars. They are a well known convention, and they are quickly recognisable by the end user. They know how to use the default OS styled scroll bars, not your quick attempt at cross browser CSS/JS implementation. I think it was Steve Krug that said 'Don't make me think!'
Have you ever seen Flash sites that rolled their own scroll bars? ugh!
There is no cross-browser method.
Short answer no.
The appearance of the browser is out of your control unfortunately - you're only supplying the contents. It's up to the browser to decide how it wants to scroll the contents.