Overflow oddity - css

What is the status on overflow-x and overflow-y? Whenever I give overflow a value, and inspect that element, the browsers tend to split this into overflow-x and overflow-y. However, trying to explicitly state this gives nothing.
For example, on my math class page: http:math.davehampson.net the grades tab is very wide, and I want it to scroll within the <div> There is no height declared, so it stretches down, and I get a horizontal scroll bar.
By problem is that I also get an unneeded vertical scroll bar. If I change overflow:scroll to overflow-x:scroll, then nothing happens. The table is displayed in full width, and the entire page scrolls. Which, because the body is black, does not show up.
Is there a way for me to eliminate this inactive vertical scroll bar?
Thanks, Dave

overflow:auto only adds a scroll bar when the content within it exceeds the allocated space.
So if you only need a horizontal scroll, make sure the height of the content is less than the height of the enclosing div, if that makes sense.

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Horizontal scrollbar showing white space on right of webpage?

This is the page in question: https://globalstudyuk.com/home-page-test/
You will see that on both desktop and mobile, there is some blank space on the right of the page.
I haven't found any solution in my code based on similar StackOverflow questions.
There should be no horizontal scrollbar, with everything filling the full width of the page.
Place the final .row inside the .container in the footer.
The negative margin on the .row is countered by the padding on the .container class.
Always useful to revisit the Bootstrap docs when things go awry:
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/layout/grid/
I had the same or very similar problem. Making the window more narrow everything seemed to resize correctly, except a horizontal scrollbar appeared at the bottom. When I scrolled with it, white-space appeared on the right side of the page.
Turns out the reason was that on the top of the page I had an element with width 100%. But under that I had another piece of text inside a PRE -section, with lines that were quite wide, wider than the resized window-width.
When I made the window more narrow the top element resized correctly but the PRE -element no longer fit into the horizontal space available, thus creating the horizontal scrollbar.
When I used that scrollbar the browser (of course) did not resize the content on the top of the page, because I was not resizing the window, only scrolling it horizontally.
Therefore the browser did not readjust the top element after the scroll to take 100% of the new visible width and therefore it could only show whitespace to the right of it as I scrolled.
So if you have this type of problem, check out if there are any DOM-elements below the currently visible ones, and whether they might be the cause of the horizontal scrollbar.
My particular problem was solved by making the PRE-section defined like this:
<pre style="width:100%; overflow-x: auto; "
> ...
Now when I make the page too narrow for the PRE-content to fit in horizontally, a horizontal scrollbar appears, but now only under the PRE-section. Scrolling it only scrolls (horizontally) the PRE-section, not the whole page. When I scroll vertically to the top of the page I don't see the PRE-section nor the horizontal scrollbar under it.

scroll into negative margin

tl;dr: If you have an element with a negative margin-top, can you make it so the scroll bar allows you to scroll into the negative part?
Hello,
I have a page with cards that need to expand both up and down (if your curious and lucky, it might be up at http://www.biologicalspeculation.com/context.cgi )
The way I accomplish the "expand up" is to have matching transitions such that the height expands at the same time as the margin-top of the containing div moves negative. This makes for a smooth animation, but it means the containing div gets a increasingly negative margin, and eventually goes off the page, and you can't scroll to it. I tried adding an intermediate div with overflow:scroll, but it had the same problem as the body overflow.
Thanks, Nick
Why not have it so that the card just expand in height to fit the content but you use jQuery to scroll the browser so the view port stays on the expanded card instead of using negative margins?

gwt ScrollPanel in TabPanel: no vertical scrollbar

EDIT
I have fixed the whitespace behaviour by resizing components within the VerticalPanel, that seem to have had an effect on the panel's dimension somehow missed by the console. I don't quite understand how.
However, I am still stuck with none of my panels showing vertical scroll bars.
In a GWT project, I have the following structure:
Page
DockLayoutPanel
North (header)
Center (body)
South (footer)
/DockLayoutPanel
Body
SplitLayoutPanel$1
West
SplitLayoutPanel$2
North
Center
TabPanel
ScrollPanel
VerticalPanel
-Several widgets-
/VerticalPanel
/ScrollPanel
/TabPanel
/Center
/SplitLayoutPanel$2
/West
Center
/SplitLayoutPanel$1
My problems are with the ScrollPanel in the TabPanel, which in itself contains a VerticalPanel containing several widgets. This is true for each Tab in the TabPanel.
My problem is that, while the width's for all containers in SplitLayoutPanel$2's center have 100% width, the ScrollPanel contains a horizontal scrollbar with a considerable white area next to it's VerticalPanel, while they are in absolute metrics the same size.
Illustrating the situation
This is the TabPanel, with ScrollPanel, and VerticalPanel. Notice how the horizontal scrollbar exists, while the TabPanel, ScrollPanel and VerticalPanel have the same width. Scrolling to the right yields a white area.
The ScrollPanel and VerticalPanel all sport an absolute width of 598px. The West component of the DockLayoutPanel has a size of 600, so that matches. Also notice how bringing up the developer console has made the scrollbar disappear. In fact, the entire panel has disappeared behind it, and no vertical scrollbar pops up.
When scrolling the bar to the right, the VerticalPanel gets partially placed off screen, and the ScrollPanel shows this whitespace. Obviously, I don't want the whitespace to be there, so there won't be need for a scrollbar at all. All panels in this situation still have the same width: 598px. Resizing the SplitLayoutPanel, using the border to the right, increases these values (obviously), but the panels do still share equal width and the whitespace remains the same size, while I'd expect it to get wider too.
The second tab contains a load of text, which continues off the screen, but no scrollbars appear.
Problem conclusion
No vertical scrollbars
A horizontal scrollbar with some magically summoned whitespace
Compontents claim to have equal width
Any help is greatly appreciated.
EDIT
Have tried resizing the VerticalPanel to 90 or 80% width. The whitespace seems unaffected and it shows that 100% really covers the visible width and not more.
TabPanel (at least the one from GWT proper) resizes from the inside-out: its size varies depending on the size of the selected tab. So your ScrollPanel will never have a vertical scrollbar unless you explicitly give it a size, and your content is actually overflowing the layer of the SplitLayoutPanel you put the TabPanel in.
Layout panels, such as TabLayoutPanel, on the other hand resize from the outside-in: the SplitLayoutPanel would set the size of the TabLayoutPanel in its center region, and the TabLayoutPanel would in turn set the size of the ScrollPanel, so if the content of the ScrollPanel overflows, a vertical scrollbar appears.
First Point : Don't mix and match layout panels and non - layout panels.
Second Point : If you want proper resizing and scrollbars, always try to mention width and height in percentages.
I see that you have mentioned width to be 100%. But what about the height?
What I suggest for you is,
Change TabPanel to TabLayoutPanel
Set all the panels height throughout the heirarchy as 100%

Disable Horizontal Scroll on Div

There is a cross browser dilemma especially now that safari uses an internal scroll mechanism that floats on top.
When a div with fixed height's content ends up getting larger than the div we need a scroll bar, but the scrollbar takes out some width and thus a horizontal bar is added to. How do we prevent a horizontal scroll even if the content is to wide I want no ability for the user to be able to scroll horizontally.
The CSS3 property overflow-x:hidden, still allows the user to scroll left and right with a trackpad. I want it disabled completely, or a solution that removes the problem of the vertical scroll bar taking width from the div.
Any ideas?
Marvellous
One solution is that you make the vertical scroll bar always display:
overflow-y: scroll
But still the scroll bar's width doesn't stay the same across browsers.
Or you can make a custom scroll bar replacement with div/CSS/JavaScript. Here is a jQuery plugin which seems promising:
http://jscrollpane.kelvinluck.com/
Set the image as background should fix your issues

Missing Scroll Bar

I seem to be missing a horizontal scroll bar on this page, http://www.animefushigi.com/
If you make your browser window skinner, half the page will be cut off but there will be no scroll bar.
I believe the main content width should be 1024 px before the need of a scrollbar
because the wrapper div does not have a stable min-width(and for browser which not support min-width, such as ie6, there is a child div .wrapper has a stable width in this case, so it will be ok,too ),which should be setted.
e.g.
//add css
#master_wrapper{min-width:1000px;}
It looks like overflow:hidden is used to clear floats in a couple of places. If you get rid of it on #master_wrapper then the horizontal scrollbar will return. However this will cause that element to collapse to a height of 0 and making this image disappear from your page. You can however rearrange your background images using the html for one of them to sort that issue out.

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