Prevent scroll-bar from adding-up to the Width of page on Chrome

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Acemad picture Acemad · Aug 31, 2013 · Viewed 180.1k times · Source

I have a small issue trying to keep my .html pages at a consistent width on Chrome, For example I have a page (1) with lots of contents that overflows the viewport's (right word?) height, so there's a vertical scroll-bar on that page (1). On page (2) i have the same layout (menus, divs,...etc) but less content, so no vertical scroll-bars in there.

The problem is that on page (1) the scroll-bars seem to push elements slightly to the left (adding-up to the width?) while everything appears well centered on page (2)

I'm still a beginner on HTML/CSS/JS, and I'm fairly convinced that this isn't so difficult, but i had no luck figuring out the solution. It does work as intended on IE10, and FireFox (non-interfering scroll-bars), I only encountered this on Chrome.

Answer

simonDos picture simonDos · May 11, 2017

DISCLAIMER: overlay has been deprecated.
You can still use this if you absolutely have to, but try not to.

This only works on WebKit browsers, but I like it a lot. Will behave like auto on other browsers.

.yourContent{
   overflow-y: overlay;
}

This will make the scrollbar appear only as an overlay, thus not affecting the width of your element!

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