Hide scroll bar, but while still being able to scroll

Question

I want to be able to scroll through the whole page, but without the scrollbar being shown.

In Google Chrome it\'s:

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    display:         


        

Answer 1

Another simple working fiddle:

#maincontainer {
    background: orange;
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    overflow: hidden;
}

#childcontainer {
    background: yellow;
    position: relative;
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    top: 20px;
    left: 20px;
    overflow: auto;
}

Overflow hidden on the parent container, and overflow auto on the child container. Simple.

Answer 2

This works for me with simple CSS properties:

.container {
    -ms-overflow-style: none;  /* Internet Explorer 10+ */
    scrollbar-width: none;  /* Firefox */
}
.container::-webkit-scrollbar { 
    display: none;  /* Safari and Chrome */
}

For older versions of Firefox, use: overflow: -moz-scrollbars-none;

Answer 3

This will be at the body:

<div id="maincontainer" >
<div id="child">this is the 1st step</div>
<div id="child">this is the 2nd step</div>
<div id="child">this is the 3rd step</div>

And this is the CSS:

#maincontainer
{
    background: grey;
    width: 101%;
    height: 101%;
    overflow: auto;
    position: fixed;
}

#child
{
    background: white;
    height:500px;
}

Answer 4

As of December 11th 2018 (Firefox 64 and above), the answer to this question is very simple indeed as Firefox 64+ now implements the CSS Scrollbar Styling spec.

Just use the following CSS:

scrollbar-width: none;

Firefox 64 release note link here.

Answer 5

Another sort of hacky approach is to do overflow-y: hidden and then manually scroll the element with something like this:

function detectMouseWheelDirection(e) {
  var delta = null, direction = false;
  if (!e) { // If the event is not provided, we get it from the window object
    e = window.event;
  }
  if (e.wheelDelta) { // Will work in most cases
    delta = e.wheelDelta / 60;
  } else if (e.detail) { // Fallback for Firefox
    delta = -e.detail / 2;
  }
  if (delta !== null) {
    direction = delta > 0 ? -200 : 200;
  }
  return direction;
}

if (element.addEventListener) {
  element.addEventListener('DOMMouseScroll', function(e) {
    element.scrollBy({
      top: detectMouseWheelDirection(e),
      left: 0,
      behavior: 'smooth'
    });
  });
}

There's a great article about how to detect and deal with onmousewheel events in deepmikoto's blog. This might work for you, but it is definitively not an elegant solution.

Answer 6

Use

function reloadScrollBars() {
    document.documentElement.style.overflow = 'auto';  // Firefox, Chrome
    document.body.scroll = "yes"; // Internet Explorer only
}

function unloadScrollBars() {
    document.documentElement.style.overflow = 'hidden';  // firefox, chrome
    document.body.scroll = "no"; // Internet Explorer only
}

Call these functions for any point you want to load or unload or reload the scrollbars. It is still scrollable in Chrome as I tested it in Chrome, but I am not sure of the other browsers.