With the latest version of ui-grid (v3.0.0-rc.16) it is possible to turn the horizontal and vertical scrollbar off seperately. I got this working by exchanging
Got my answer on github:
All I needed to do was to pass uiGridConstants to my controller like this:
angular.module('myApp').controller('myCtrl',function($scope,uiGridConstants) { ... $scope.gridOptions.enableHorizontalScrollbar = uiGridConstants.scrollbars.NEVER; ... })