Overflow and Scrollbars

[Moshambi]

Hi,

I have set my overflow to scroll, it doesn't need to scroll horizontally but it still shows up with a scroll bar at the bottom. Is there any way I can get rid of this?

Thanks!

[Snookerman]

Use overflow-y: scroll; instead.

Good luck!

[coothead]

Hi there Moshambi,

our friend Snookerman has suggested that you use...

overflow-y: scroll;

...but it doesn't exist in CSS level 2.1.

It will be in CSS 3 and some browsers may already have adopted it
but I would suggest that it would be safer for you to use...

overflow: auto;

..which will put the scrollbars where they are actually required.

coothead

[Snookerman]

It is CSS3 but I can't think of any popular browser that doesn't support it. I think even IE5 supports it. Except for a small validation error (if you know what you are doing it doesn't really matter) there will be no other issues. overflow: auto; might do it in this case, depending on what Moshambi is looking for, but it's not the same thing. overflow-y: scroll; is useful if you want to have a vertical scrollbar in Fx even if there is no need for scrolling, just like in IE. This will get rid of that jump that occurs when the scrollbar appears.