Disable browsers vertical and horizontal scrollbars

Question

Is it possible to disable the browsers vertical and horizontal scrollbars using jQuery or javascript?

Answer 1

In case you need possibility to hide and show scrollbars dynamically you could use

$("body").css("overflow", "hidden");

and

$("body").css("overflow", "auto");

somewhere in your code.

Answer 2

In modern versions of IE (IE10 and above), scrollbars can be hidden using the -ms-overflow-style property.

html {
     -ms-overflow-style: none;
}

In Chrome, scrollbars can be styled:

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    display: none;
}

This is very useful if you want to use the 'default' body scrolling in a web application, which is considerably faster than overflow-y: scroll.

Answer 3

(I can't comment yet, but wanted to share this):

Lyncee's code worked for me in desktop browser. However, on iPad (Chrome, iOS 9), it crashed the application. To fix it, I changed

document.documentElement.style.overflow = ...

to

document.body.style.overflow = ...

which solved my problem.

Answer 4

So far we have overflow:hidden on the body. However IE doesn't always honor that and you need to put scroll="no" on the body element as well and/or place overflow:hidden on the html element as well.

You can take this further when you need to 'take control' of the view port you can do this:-

<style>
 body {width:100%; height:100%; overflow:hidden; margin:0; }
 html {width:100%; height:100%; overflow:hidden; }
</style>

An element granted height 100% in the body has the full height of the window viewport, and element positioned absolutely using bottom:nnPX will be set nn pixels above the bottom edge of the window, etc.

Answer 5

Try CSS.

If you want to remove Horizontal

overflow-x: hidden;

And if you want to remove Vertical

overflow-y: hidden;

Answer 6

IE has some bug with the scrollbars. So if you want either of the two, you must include the following to hide the horizontal scrollbar:

overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y:scroll;

and to hide vertical:

overflow-y: hidden;
overflow-x: scroll;