I have a div with a scollbar as a result of the CSS below. However, when there is no need to scroll, the bar is still there. There is no slider/arrows, but an emtpy bar is just there. Is there a way to only show the bar if the content overflows? Thanks.
#id{
overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical;
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
use
overflow: auto;
then overflow will only be displayed if it actually overflows
auto The behavior of auto isn’t specified in any detail in the CSS2.1
specification. In existing implementations it provides scrollbar(s)
when necessary, but it doesn’t show scrollbars unless the content
overflows the element’s box.
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/overflow
Related
jsfiddle.net/etto2sdt/
What I'm trying to do is having a touch scrollable div. The body is set to 100% and I want to be able to scroll the contents inside #testnavwrapper
But it's not working... any ideas?
#testnavwrapper {
width: 100%;
overflow-x: scroll;
}
This will give you a horizontal scrollbar on the #testnavwrapper.
width: 2000px, as you put it, will have no effect as the overflow would occur on the body element (which has overflow set to hidden)
Hope it helps
Is there any known reason overflow-y: hidden will remove all scroll bars in IE9?
I've put this in an IE9 only style sheet like this:
body,html {
overflow-x: auto !important;
overflow-y: hidden !important;
}
I'm a genius and had my x and y switched. For future developers that see this. Get sleep, it really helps.
The overflow: hidden property will hide any content that will flow out of the normal boundary of the elements box model. In this case you are setting it to the html, so anything that overflows will hide instead of having the scroll bars. Give this a try and see how this works:
html, body {
overflow-x: auto;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
Here is a great article on all the different overflow properties available and how they work: http://css-tricks.com/the-css-overflow-property/
My website http://dekomkommertijd.nl has a banner with moving clouds that I made with CSS animated (moving) div's. They enter left and when they leave the screen at the right side they create a horizontal scrollbar. Everything works as I want to, except I don't want the scrollbar, except for the content within my content div (canvas - with a width of 960px). Everything outside should be without a horizontal scrollbar and just leave the screen.
I tried several methods I found (mostly for static divs) but they don't work for my moving divs.
anybody knows how to fix this?
thanks.
Rick
The way you've described it suggests to me that you'd want your clouds and other content to overflow in different ways. The overflow is determined by the parent, so to handle the overflow differently you'd need to have two parents: one for the clouds, and one for the content.
If you choose to do it this way, setting the cloud parent to absolute positioning would take it out of the normal document flow so it doesn't interfere with the rest of your content. And setting the overflow makes it behave as you'd like.
width: 100%; /* Spans the whole document */
overflow-x: hidden; /* Hides overflow instead of displaying it */
position: absolute;
top: 0; left: 0;
Another solution would be handling the overflow identically for your clouds and other content. If you do it this way, you could just set it to be hidden on a mutual parent element, like the body.
This second solution might make more sense, as it's 1. simpler and 2. unlikely that you'll have anything other than the clouds overflowing.
Remove overflow-y: hidden from the following code:
html {
overflow-y: scroll; /* Remove This Line */
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
and apply following style on the body:
body {
overflow-y: auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
Hopefully, it will work.
I have an arbitrary amount of text that will be displayed in a confined space.
How can I trim the output so that whatever is "beyond" the box is not displayed, or how can I force the box to create a vertical scroll bar?
For HTML:
<div id="smallBoxWithLotsOfText">There is way more text in here than what
I have typed. I mean, this text is long. There is lots of it.
You can't even imagine how long this text is gonna get. No joking.
It's long; it's very, very long. It keeps going, and going, and going.
It's the Energizer Bunny of text. Like, seriously dude. It's crazy.
Absolutely crazy.
</div>
Try CSS:
#smallBoxWithLotsOfText {
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
overflow: auto;
}
The height property tells the box how high to be. The overflow property tells the box to add a scroll bar when the contents get bigger, but not to always have a scrollbar (like scroll does).
You can see this in action.
usually 'overflow: auto' should work if there is a set height/width. You can force a scroll bar with 'overflow: scroll'. You can hide anything with 'overflow: hidden;'
The key to overflow with CSS styles is the height and width have to be determined by the browser in order for it to know when to start overflowing.
The overflow property. You can set the value to hidden to hide the data and scroll to scroll the data.
<div class="text">this is some text that would be very long...</div>
//Hidden
.text
{
overflow: hidden;
width: 50px;
height: 50px
}
//Scroll
.text
{
overflow: scroll;
width: 50px;
height: 50px
}
Take a look at overflow. overflow: hidden clips content, overflow:Scroll adds a scrollbar.
How can I trim the output so that
whatever is "beyond" the box is not
displayed
Use overflow: hidden
How can I force the box to create a
vertical scroll bar?
Use overflow: auto. To use this, though, make sure you have a width/height specified on the box
You may try using ellipsis by adding the following in CSS:
.truncate {
width: 250px;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
More ways to trim text and show ellipsis can be found here:
http://blog.sanuker.com/?p=631
I'm a css noob, and though I want this DIV to resize when the window is resized, I don't want inner content to change the size of it.
Use the overflow statement. e.g.
overflow: hidden; /* all content hidden as it spills over */
overflow: auto; /* Scroll bars appear on div when required to allow moving around */
overflow: scroll; /* Scroll bars will be present at all times */
Try using:
div {
overflow: hidden;
}
Read more here.
set overflow: hidden on the containing div
Have you looked into CSS and the overflow directive? You can use this to tell the div to scroll or truncate/hide its content when the content is too large.