How can I disable a browser or element scrollbar, but still allow scrolling with wheel or arrow keys?
Solution 1:
Like the previous answers, you would use overflow:hidden to disable the scrollbars on the body/div.
Then you'd bind the mousewheel event to a function that would change the scrollTop of the div to emulate scrolling.
For arrow keys, you would bind the keydown event to recognize an arrow key, and then change scrollTop and scrollLeft of the div as appropriate to emulate scrolling.
(Note: you use keydown instead of keypress since IE doesn't recognize keypress for arrow keys.)
Edit: I couldn't get FF/Chrome to recognize keydown on a div, but it works in IE8. Depending on what you needed this for, you can set a keydown listener on the document to scroll the div. (Check out the keyCode reference as an example.)
For example, scrolling with the mouse wheel (using jQuery and a mousewheel plugin):
<div id="example" style="width:300px;height:200px;overflow:hidden">
insert enough text to overflow div here
</div>
<script>
$("#example").bind("mousewheel",function(ev, delta) {
var scrollTop = $(this).scrollTop();
$(this).scrollTop(scrollTop-Math.round(delta));
});
</script>
(This is a quick mockup, you'd have to adjust the numbers since for me, this scrolls a bit slowly.)
keyCode reference
mousewheel plugin
keydown, keypress @ quirksmode
Update 12/19/2012:
The updated location of the mousewheel plugin is at: https://github.com/brandonaaron/jquery-mousewheel
Solution 2:
What about a purely CSS solution?
Solution 1 (cross browser but more hacky)
#div {
position: fixed;
right: -20px;
left: 20px;
background-color: black;
color: white;
height: 5em;
overflow-y: scroll;
overflow-x: hidden;
}<html>
<body>
<div id="div">
Scrolling div with hidden scrollbars!<br/>
On overflow, this div will scroll with the mousewheel but scrollbars won't be visible.<br/>
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</div>
</body>
</html>Solution 2 (uses experimental features, may not support some browsers)
Just add the nobars class to any element you want to hide the scrollbars on.
.nobars {
/* Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scrollbar-width */
scrollbar-width: none;
/* IE: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh771902(v=vs.85).aspx */
-ms-overflow-style: none;
}
.nobars::-webkit-scrollbar {
/* Chrome/Edge/Opera/Safari: https://css-tricks.com/custom-scrollbars-in-webkit/ */
display: none;
}
Solution 3 (cross browser javascript)
Perfect Scrollbar doesn't require jQuery (although it can utilise jQuery if installed) and has a demo available here. The components can be styled with css such as in the following example:
.ps__rail-y {
display: none !important;
}
Here is a complete example including the implementation of Perfect Scrollbar:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/perfect-scrollbar.css">
<style>
#container {
position: relative; /* can be absolute or fixed if required */
height: 200px; /* any value will do */
overflow: auto;
}
.ps__rail-y {
display: none !important;
}
</style>
<script src='dist/perfect-scrollbar.min.js'></script>
<div id="container">
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</div>
<script>
// on dom ready...
var container = document.getElementById("container");
var ps = new PerfectScrollbar(container);
//ps.update(container);
//ps.destroy(container);
</script>
Solution 3:
You dont have to use jquery or js to make this. Its more performant with simple webkit.
Just add the code below to your css file.
::-webkit-scrollbar {
display: none;
}
Caution ! This will disable all the scrollbar so be sure to put it in a specific class or id if you just want one to be hidden.
Solution 4:
I much prefer SamGoody's answer provided to a duplicate of this question. It leaves native scrolling effects intact, instead of trying to manually re-implement for a few particular input devices:
A better solution is to set the target div to overflow:scroll, and wrap it inside a second element that is 8px narrower, who's overflow:hidden.
See the original comment for a fleshed-out example. You may want to use JavaScript to determine the actual size of scrollbars rather than assuming they are always 8px wide as his example does.
Solution 5:
To get this working for me, I used this CSS:
html { overflow-y: hidden; }
But I had problems using $(this).scrollTop(), so I bound to my #id, but adjusted the scrollTop of window. Also, my smooth scrolling mouse would fire lots of 1 or -1 deltas, so I multiplied that by 20.
$("#example").bind("mousewheel", function (ev, delta) {
var scrollTop = $(window).scrollTop();
$(window).scrollTop(scrollTop - Math.round(delta * 20));
});