Hide the scrollbar

by Milomir Topic

HTML

<h1>Hidden scrollbar</h1>
<hr>
<div class="hide-scroll">
    <div class="viewport">
        <h2>Explaination</h2>
        <p>This example hides the scroll bar of the inner div by hiding the outer div's overflow, and by applying a negative margin to <i>pull</i> the scrollbar off of the screen. There's an equal padding applied to the inner div to counter the negative margin so that the content does not get pulled out of the viewport.</p>
        <h2>Lorem Ipsum</h2>
        <p>Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</p>
        <p>Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</p>
        <p>Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</p>
        <p>Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</p>
        <p>Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet...

CSS

.viewport {
    overflow: auto;
 
    /* Make sure the inner div is not larger than the container
     * so that we have room to scroll.
     */
    max-height: 100%;

    /* Pick an arbitrary margin/padding that should be bigger
     * than the max width of all the scroll bars across
     * the devices you are targeting.
     * padding = -margin
     */
    margin-right: -100px;
    padding-right: 100px;
}

.hide-scroll {
    overflow: hidden;
}

/* Optional styles */
.hide-scroll {
    height: 300px;
    background-color: lightgrey;
    padding: 0 5px;
    position: relative;
}

.hide-scroll:after {
    content: '';
    height: 2em;
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(rgba(219,219,219,0)), to(rgba(211,211,211,1)));
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(rgba(219,219,219,0) 0%, rgba(211,211,211,1) 100%);
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(rgba(219,219,219,0) 0%, rgba(211,211,211,1) 100%);
    background: -o-linear-gradient(rgba(219,219,219,0) 0%, rgba(211,211,211,1) 100%);
    background: linear-gradient(rgba(219,219,219,0) 0%, rgba(211,211,211,1) 100%);
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#00dbdbdb', endColorstr='#d3d3d3',GradientType=0 );
}
.viewport p:last-child {
    margin-bottom: 2em;
}