Disable horizontal scrollbar due to a DIV with position:absolute which is outside of the page

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Tom picture Tom · May 24, 2011 · Viewed 87.3k times · Source

I have an absolutely positioned element that is "outside" of the page, but I want browsers (I am using Firefox 3) not to display horizontal scrollbars. It seems that displaying a div that is positioned to the left (e.g. having "left: -20px") is okay, and no scrollbar is shown. However the same thing on the right ("right: -20px") always shows the scrollbar. Is it possible to hide the scrollbar, but to keep standard scrolling possible? I mean I only want to disable scrolling due to this absolute-positioned element, but to keep scrolling due to other elements (I know I can disable scrollbars completely, that's not what I want).

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
  <div id="el1" style="position: absolute; top: 0; background-color: yellow; left: -20px;">
    element
  </div>
  <div id="el2" style="position: absolute; top: 0; background-color: yellow; right: -20px;">
    element
  </div>
  <h1>Hello</h1>
  <p>world</p>
</body>
</html>

Answer

Vap0r picture Vap0r · May 24, 2011

Yes, it is possible, on your html tag, type style="overflow-x: hidden". That'll do the trick...

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