Horizontal scroll in ionic 2

Question

I have been trying to implement horizontal scroll in ionic 2 page. But the content always gets vertically scrolled.

I tried writing my own css by setting 'overflow-x to scroll'. But it didn't work. I also tried ionic's ion-scroll component by setting 'scrollX= true'. But the entire content got hidden. i.e it was not visible on the page at all. Below is the sample code i used for ion-scroll. Not sure what exactly i am missing here.

Any guidance on this pls?. (I am new to Ionic 2 and CSS. So sorry if the question is too simple.)

<ion-navbar *navbar primary>
    <ion-title>
        Title
    </ion-title>
</ion-navbar>

<ion-content>
    <ion-scroll scrollX="true">

        <ion-card>
            <ion-card-content>
                content
            </ion-card-content>
        </ion-card>
        <ion-card>
            <ion-card-content>
                content
            </ion-card-content>
        </ion-card>

    </ion-scroll>
</ion-content>

Answer 1

None of the answers here worked for me. What I ended up with is the following HTML.

<ion-scroll scrollX style="height:200px;">
  <div class="scroll-item">
    Item 1
  </div>
  <div class="scroll-item">
    Item 2
  </div>
</ion-scroll>

Along with this SCSS. It's important that the child elements are display: inline-block.

ion-scroll[scrollX] {
  white-space: nowrap;
  .scroll-item {
    display: inline-block;
  }
}

Answer 2

I achieved the horizontal scroll with several ionic components:

ion-avatar scrollable HTML

<ion-content>
<ion-row>
    <ion-item no-lines>
    <ion-scroll scrollX="true" scroll-avatar>
        <ion-avatar>
          <img src="../../assets/whatever.png" *ngFor="let avatar of avatars" class="scroll-item"/>
        </ion-avatar>
    </ion-scroll>
    </ion-item>
  </ion-row>
</ion-content>

ion-icon scrollable HTML

<ion-content>
  <ion-row>
    <ion-item no-lines>
      <ion-scroll scrollX="true">
        <ion-icon *ngFor="let avatar of avatars" name="radio-button-on" class="scroll-item selectable-icon"></ion-icon>
      </ion-scroll>
    </ion-item>
  </ion-row>
</ion-content>

SCSS

  ion-scroll[scrollX] {
    white-space: nowrap;
    height: 120px;
    overflow: hidden;

    .scroll-item {
      display: inline-block;
    }

    .selectable-icon{
      margin: 10px 20px 10px 20px;
      color: red;
      font-size: 100px;
    }

    ion-avatar img{
      margin: 10px;
    }
  }

  ion-scroll[scroll-avatar]{
    height: 60px;
  }

  /* Hide ion-content scrollbar */
  ::-webkit-scrollbar{
    display:none;
  }

That worked for me with ionic 3.2.0 version.

ionic scrollX example

Answer 3

You need to define the height of your <ion-scroll> container. If you don't do this, it seems that the <ion-scroll> element always has a height of 0.

Example:

<ion-scroll scrollX="true" style="width:100vw;height:350px">
    <img src="test.jpg style="border:1px dotted red;width:700px;height:350px">
</ion-scroll>