Body set to overflow-y:hidden but page is still scrollable in Chrome

css google-chrome scroll scrollbar overflow

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Solution 1

I finally found a way to fix the issue so I'm answering here.

I set the overflow-y on the #content instead, and wrapped my steps in another div. It works.

Here is the final code:

<body>
  <div id="content">
    <div id="steps">
       <div class="step">this is the 1st step</div>
       <div class="step">this is the 2nd step</div>
       <div class="step">this is the 3rd step</div>
     </div>
   </div>
</body>

#content {
  position:absolute;
  width:100%;
  overflow-y:hidden;
  top:0;
  bottom:0;
}
.step {
  position:relative;
  height:500px;
  margin-bottom:500px;
}

Solution 2

Setting a height on your body and html of 100% should fix you up. Without a defined height your content is not overflowing, so you will not get the desired behavior.

html, body {
  overflow-y:hidden;
  height:100%;
}

Solution 3

What works for me on /FF and /Chrome:

body {

    position: fixed;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;

}

overflow: hidden just disables display of the scrollbars. (But you can put it in there if you like to).

There is one drawback I found: If you use this method on a page which you want only temporarily to stop scrolling, setting position: fixed will scroll it to the top. This is because position: fixed uses absolute positions which are currently set to 0/0.

This can be repaired e.g. with jQuery:

var lastTop;

function stopScrolling() {
    lastTop = $(window).scrollTop();      
    $('body').addClass( 'noscroll' )          
         .css( { top: -lastTop } )        
         ;            
}

function continueScrolling() {                    

    $('body').removeClass( 'noscroll' );      
    $(window).scrollTop( lastTop );       
}

Solution 4

Another solution I found to work is to set a mousewheel handler on the inside container and make sure it doesn't propagate by setting its last parameter to false and stopping the event bubble.

document.getElementById('content').addEventListener('mousewheel',function(evt){evt.cancelBubble=true;   if (evt.stopPropagation) evt.stopPropagation},false);

Scroll works fine in the inner container, but the event doesn't propagate to the body and so it does not scroll. This is in addition to setting the body properties overflow:hidden and height:100%.

Solution 5

Try this when you want to "fix" your body's scroll:

jQuery('body').css('height', '100vh').css('overflow-y', 'hidden');

and this when you want to turn it normal again:

jQuery('body').css('height', '').css('overflow-y', '');

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Cécile Boucheron

Designer + coder at Dailymotion, Brooklynite, French.

Updated on January 12, 2020

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Cécile Boucheron over 4 years

I'm having an issue with the overflow-y property in Chrome. Even though I've set it to hidden, I can still scroll the page with the mouse wheel.

Here is my code:

html,
body {
  overflow-y: hidden;
}

#content {
  position: absolute;
  width: 100%;
}

.step {
  position: relative;
  height: 500px;
  margin-bottom: 500px;
}

<body>
  <div id="content">
    <div class="step">this is the 1st step</div>
    <div class="step">this is the 2nd step</div>
    <div class="step">this is the 3rd step</div>
  </div>
</body>

Does anybody know how to block the vertical scrolling in Chrome?

Thanks!