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Some times it's nice to be able to slide things out of the viewport to hide them, for example when making hide-able sidebars or panels. But when I push something past the right or bottom edge of the window, the browser (Chrome in my case) automatically adds scrollbars to it. The user can now scroll over to the element I tried to hide. (JSFiddle Example)
I can remove the scrollbars by setting overflow-x: hidden on the body element, but that opens up a bunch of other side effects. For instance, the user can still accidentally click&drag their way past the edge of the screen. The user now sees the "hidden" element and may also be stuck if they don't know how browsers work. (JSFiddle example)
How can I achieve this "disappear off the screen" effect without experiencing these drawbacks?
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Use overflow: hidden instead. Use overflow-x : scroll and overflow-y : hidden , or overflow: scroll hidden instead. Use overflow-x : hidden and overflow-y : scroll , or overflow: hidden scroll instead. Use overflow: clip instead.
Set the position of div at the bottom of its container can be done using bottom, and position property. Set position value to absolute and bottom value to zero to placed a div at the bottom of container.
position:absolute You can also use position absolute as well as set all the viewport sides (top, right, bottom, left) to 0px will make the div take the full screen.
It is because you are using position absolute. You cannot use position absolute with overflow hidden, because position absolute moves the targeted element out of context with the document structure.
The best way I've found to solving this issue is to place the element inside an invisible wrapper of the same size. The wrapper should have overflow: hidden and the element should be pushed outside the edge of the wrapper instead of outside the edge of <body>.
The trick of this solution is that nothing actually leaves the screen, so the browser doesn't try to increase the viewport size to compensate. Instead the wrapper rests on the edge of the screen and the sidebar is inside it. Think of the wrapper as an opacity map.
The wrapper also has to be resized down to 0 so that it won't lay invisible on top of the document and possibly grab clicks that wasn't meant for it.
Here's an example of the solution in practice. I've used jQuery to manipulate the CSS, but any JavaScript library (or none) will do the trick. Notice that the "clicker" div wouldn't be clickable unless the sidebar wrapper is scaled down.
$('.sidebar-inner').on('click', function() {
$(this).css('right', -250);
$(this).closest('.sidebar-outer').css('width', 0);
});
$('.clicker').on('click', function() {
alert('CLICKED!');
});body
{
background-color: red;
font: 12pt sans-serif;
}
.sidebar-outer
{
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
width: 250px;
-webkit-transition: width 0.2s ease-out;
-moz-transition: width 0.2s ease-out;
transition: width 0.2s ease-out;
overflow: hidden;
z-index: 999;
}
.sidebar-inner
{
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
right: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
width: 250px;
padding: 10px;
box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-transition: right 0.2s ease-out;
-moz-transition: right 0.2s ease-out;
transition: right 0.2s ease-out;
background-color: cornflowerblue;
cursor: pointer;
}
.clicker
{
position: absolute;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
top: 10px;
right: 10px;
padding: 10px;
background-color: green;
cursor: pointer;
}<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="sidebar-outer">
<div class="sidebar-inner">
Click to hide
</div>
</div>
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