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I have a web page that has content which extends past the right edge of the browser window. I set overflow-x: hidden on <body> to turn off the bottom scrollbar, but I can still scroll horizontally with the trackpad, which is not what I want.
Is there any way to prevent the browser from scrolling horizontally?
As a side note: Safari 4.0.4 only scrolls horizontally sometimes, and the scrolling feels "sticky" and "jumpy," whereas Firefox always smoothly scrolls horizontally.
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Make sure overflow is set to "scroll" not "auto." With that said, in OS X Lion, overflow set to "scroll" behaves more like auto in that scrollbars will still only show when being used. So if any the solutions above don't appear to be working that might be why. You can style it accordingly if you don't like the default.
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 ).
Hiding the scroll bar Horizontally To hide the horizontal scroll bar, we can use the overflow-x: hidden property.
you could try to set in CSS:
html{
overflow-x: hidden;
}
instead of use body selector.
I tried that and works in firefox.
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I think the real question is, why do you have your content overflowing out of the intended size of the page? Is this content that you don't want users to actually see? In that case, put it in a div somewhere and set it's display to none. That would avoid the overflow issue entirely.
If there is a legit reason you want it to overflow the container, then set the size of the container explicitly, then the overflow-x to hidden. I haven't tested it, but that should prevent the current behavior. If not, try using a div, rather than the body tag. The browsers may be acting strangely because it's working on the body tag itself.
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