Developing an iPad website I tried to use the CSS property overflow: auto
to get the scrollbars if needed in a div
, but my device is refusing to show them even if the two fingers scroll is working.
I tried with
overflow: auto;
and
overflow: scroll;
and the result is the same.
I'm only testing on an iPad (on desktop browsers works perfectly).
Any ideas?
Open a web page or document. 3. Swipe up to display the scroll bar on the right side of the page.
Use overflow: auto . Scrollbars will only appear when needed. (Sidenote, you can also specify for only the x, or y scrollbar: overflow-x: auto and overflow-y: auto ).
Showing scroll bars on Mac Windows and Linux always show you the scroll bars, but if you're on Mac you have to change a setting to get them to show. Go to System Preferences, then General and toggle “Show scroll bars” to “Always”.
Edit following the comment left, kindly, by kritzikratzi:
[Starting] with ios 5beta a new property
-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch
can be added which should result in the expected behaviour.
Some, but very little, further reading:
Original answer, left for posterity.
Unfortunately neither overflow: auto
, or scroll
, produces scrollbars on the iOS devices, apparently due to the screen-width that would be taken up such useful mechanisms.
Instead, as you've found, users are required to perform the two-finger swipe in order to scroll the overflow
-ed content. The only reference, since I'm unable to find the manual for the phone itself, I could find is here: tuaw.com: iPhone 101: Two-fingered scrolling.
The only work-around I can think of for this, is if you could possibly use some JavaScript, and maybe jQTouch, to create your own scroll-bars for overflow
elements. Alternatively you could use @media queries to remove the overflow
and show the content in full, as an iPhone user this gets my vote, if only for the sheer simplicity. For example:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="handheld.css" media="only screen and (max-device width:480px)" />
The preceding code comes from A List Apart, from the same article linked-to above (I'm not sure why they left of the type="text/css"
, but I assume there are reasons.
Apply this code in your css
::-webkit-scrollbar{ -webkit-appearance: none; width: 7px; } ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { border-radius: 4px; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.5); -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.5); }
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