The jQuery time-picker plugin that I wrote uses a div as the containing block for the list of times, and on Mobile Safari there are no scrollbars to indicate that there are more available times than are visible. I know about using two fingers to scroll within the div (on the iPad at least), but that only works if the user knows that there is more content to scroll to, and there's no indication that there is. So, my question: Has anyone been able to get scrollbars to show in Mobile Safari? How'd you do it?
Assuming you are using iOS5.0 or later, I think you have to use the following:
-webkit-overflow-scrolling: auto (this is default style)
auto: One finger scrolling without momentum.
The other available style is
-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch
touch: Native-style scrolling. Specifying this style has the effect of creating a staking context (like opacity, masks, and transforms).
Using touch mode, the scrollbar will be visible when the user touches and scrolls, but disappear when not in use. If you want to make it always visible, then this old post will help you:
::-webkit-scrollbar {
-webkit-appearance: none;// you need to tweak this to make it available..
width: 8px;
}
Another Piece of Code for Thumb by #BJMC:
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
border-radius: 4px;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.5);
box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.5);
}
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Edit: with respect to this demo's behaviour, you should use jQuery because it will help you a lot, $(document).ready(function(){//your code with timer}) code with timer will need to reset the CSS property to normal after desired time(let's say 5 sec.)
For the demo( that you have described), this is initiated with the onhover event, please check this fiddle I have created for that.
That reproduces the results in a desktop browser, and will also work in iPad, just add your timer code to suit your requirements.
Regarding the original question: the best solution to have scrollbars would be to use an external library (already recommended iScroll is good, but even jQuery UI itself contains scrollbars). But displaying ever-present scrollbars might deviate from the general iOS UI (see below).
Alternative would be to indicate with other GUI elements that the content is scrollable. Consider small gradient fields in the end of the element (the content fades to background there) that suggest that content continues when touched and scrolled.
In iOS5 overflow: scroll functions as expected, i.e it allows the the div to be scrolled up/down with one finger within the area specified by the dimensions of the div. But scrollable div doesn't have scrollbars. This is a bit different from the general UI in iOS(5). Generally there are no scrollbars also, but they appear when user starts scrolling a content area and fade out again after the touch event has stopped.
To answer Sam Hasler comment above.
Nicescroll 3 is a jquery plugin that does just what you want with fade in/out effect and work in all major Mobile/Tablet/Desktop browsers.
Live demo
Code:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("html").niceScroll({styler:"fb",cursorcolor:"#000"});
$("#divexample1").niceScroll();//or styles/options below
$("#divexample2").niceScroll("#wrapperexample2",{cursorcolor:"#0F0",boxzoom:true});
$("#divexample3").niceScroll("#divexample3 iframe",{boxzoom:true});
});
If you want to have the scroll to be always visible,
Do not set -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch
then set custom style for scrollbar
::-webkit-scrollbar {
-webkit-appearance: none;// you need to tweak this to make it available..
width: 8px;
}
You loss the momentum effect, but scrollbar will always be there.
(tested under iPhone 4/ iOS 7)
Mobile safari, as far as I have seen won't support scrollbars.
The best plugin I could find to get the job done is this.
Its Demos are available here.
It also has multiple predefined skins to suit your application.
here's a sample of what you'll get -
By convention, scrollbars are not used on iOS.
For a div with overflow: scroll, the only native way to scroll is with two fingers.
You might take a look at iScroll, a JavaScript library which handles touch events and implements single-finger momentum scrolling (what users generally expect in native apps) for divs.
until ios5 you could not scroll internal divs - so you probably are not seeing a scroll bar when you try to scroll because there isn't one.
I haven't tested on ios5 but supposedly scrolling internal divs now works.
If it isn't an internal div then you should be able to see the scroll bar when it is scrolling only - this isn't just on ios anymore - lion has gotten rid of all native scroll bars too. You can only see them when a window is scrolling or when the window is first loaded.
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How can I implement pull to refresh for iOS in HTML for a horizontal list?
That is, a list that scrolls horizontally, but when you pull it to the right it reveals a hidden div that can trigger a javascript callback?
I think I've worked out a solution, but it has the odd characteristic of hiding the .pull-to-refresh span if I position it completely to the left of the scrolling content. If I position it 1px shy of all the way, however, it works fine.
Here's the pastebin of my horizontal pull to refresh solution. Note that this only works on browsers that support -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch, like those on iOS devices. You can load just the result of the jsfiddle on a mobile device here: http://fiddle.jshell.net/mhBd2/show/
Is there a better way, or did I discover a webkit bug?
For anyone else along this path, this was part of a bigger solution to get a horizontally scrolling list to dynamically fill the rest of a line (like How to make an inline-block element fill the remainder of the line?), which I got working here: http://jsfiddle.net/fuWcr/
In my first attempt at a responsive web design I have run into a curious problem. When I resize my browser down to 615px width or less, a horizontal scroll bar appears. I'm not sure what element is causing this. I tried putting a border around each element using
* {
border:1px solid #FFF;
}
to help me visualize where the edges of the elements were but I don't see any borders extending beyond the window boundaries.
Can someone take a look at my site and give me some insight? http://www.ritualbliss.ca
Thanks!
Edit: So I only get the scroll bar in Firefox. Chrome works fine and the desktop version of Safari but on my iPhone it scrolls horizontally.
Edit: the site is for a legitimate massage business but some may consider the picture NSFW
Devin,
Try using a tool like Firebug for Firefox, IE Developer Tools, or the Chrome Developer tools. I'm sure Safari and Opera have similar tools, as well. These things will give you the ability to highlight and view the various properties of every visible HTML element on the page, including Javascript and CSS information.
One other thing to think about is not using the * selector in your CSS. I am not sure why you would want to put a border around every single element on your page because to me, that would not look visually appealing. The border style attribute adds the thickness of the border to whichever dimensions it is applied to. So, in your case, every element in your page has 2px added to both its height and width, even the "html" element. This could be why you have the scroll bar but can't tell where the extra pixels are.
Also, do you have any CSS styles that set a width or min-width to 617 pixels? Or a combination of elements that share the same area and add up to 617 pixels? Maybe a table with columns that are not shrinkable?
There is a lot to look at and your URL looks like it's probably porno or something so I cannot go there at work and check it out...
Good Luck,
Matt
Edit
I fooled around with firebug for a few minutes and agree with Ruben that handling the overflow would be a good idea. Although I think the setting should be on the body instead of #content.
Try this:
body { overflow-x: hidden; }
Like Ruben's answer it is hiding overflow, but you can still get the vertical scrollbar if people REALLY narrow down their browser.
can you please warn us when it's nsfw :s
use this css:
#content { overflow: hidden }
not the best solution but you have to use firebug to find out what's sticking out
padding and borders increase the width of your element too
css3 box-sizing:border-box solved this one.
I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure out why my pages based on Bootstrap responsive have an extra 25-30px on the right side in Firefox and IE when the window is <600px in width. I started to remove parts of my code one by one, until I was left only with the fluid nav bar and the Facebook SDK. Once I then removed the Facebook JS SDK reference, the padding on the right side disappeared.
You can see this here:
FB JS SDK included, extra right side padding:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/571515/chewsy/Test/FB-with.htm
If you remove the FB JS SDK, it works as expected (no padding on right side):
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/571515/chewsy/Test/FB-without.htm
Since I need the Facebook JS SDK for the like buttons on my page, how can I work around this?
Oddly, in Safari and Chrome this does not repro.
Screenshot from Firefox:
Screenshot from IE:
As suggested by CBroe, you could try to alter the #fb-root style, but there may some JS actions that will change it again, or it may just disable some functions.
So I would suggest to add this to your styles :
html { overflow-x: hidden; }
With this fix, you may encounter one slight problem if you have a very small window and want an horizontal scrollbar. You might try this, though the padding reappears under 200px :
#media (max-width: 200px) {
html { overflow-x: auto; }
}
Tested on FF13, and IE9 (can't resize IE9 window to less than 200px).
It’s the Facebook DIV element #fb-root that’s causing this – once you set it to display:none or position it absolutely with say left:-200px via Firebug, the extra margin disappears.
However, doing so in your stylesheet might not be a good idea, since the SDK uses this element to display it’s dialogs etc. – so either those might stop working (setting it to display:none is supposed to stop it working in older IEs completely), or the SDK might overwrite such formatting again itself.
You should thoroughly test this, if you try adding formatting of your own to it.
When a user perform a search on my website I want to show the result in a small div with vertical scrollbars instead of that the user need to scroll the full page. That works perfect in all browsers BUT I get problems on the iPad. I can see that the search result doesn't fit into the div but no scroll bar is showing up on the iPad. Also when I try to scroll inside the div the full page is scrolled instead. Is there a solution to get this working?
HTML AND CSS:
<div class="searchResult">
//Here I show the search result
</div>
div.searchResult
{
height: 540px;
overflow: -moz-scrollbars-vertical;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
I believe the answer is that you cannot scroll unless you use the two-finger methods. However if you look at the last link, there is a workaround.
Issues:
CSS Overflow property not working in iPad
http://www.webmanwalking.org/library/experiments/dsp_frames_outer_document.html
Workaround:
http://cubiq.org/scrolling-div-on-iphone-ipod-touch
iScroll is the jQuery plugin that tahdhaze09 mentioned. And to be more specific:
iScroll is evolving and adding many new features to the basic
scrolling functionality. If all you need is the plain old scroller for
mobile webkit, you should really use iscroll-lite.js instead.
iscroll-lite.js is part of the iScroll package. It looks as if it will solve the one-finger scroll problem quite nicely.
For some odd reason changing the div to a span works on an iPad.
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.