disabling horizontal scroll on an iPhone website

iphone ios css mobile-safari horizontal-scrolling

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Solution 1

Add overflows on your body like this:

body    {
        font: 12px/20px "Helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
        font-weight: normal;
        overflow: hidden;
        overflow-y: auto;
        }

And yes stay with this:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">

Solution 2

I know I am a little late to the party, but I was having this same issue and solved it by adding:

body, html{
    overflow-x: hidden;
}

Hopefully this will help someone else!

Solution 3

I was having the same issue with a mobile menu positioned outside the viewport area. overflow-x: hidden solved in Android phones, but not in iPhones. I solved by changing 'absolute' to 'fixed' position to the menu:

body { overflow-x: hidden; }    
nav { position: absolute; width: 300px; right: -300px; }

to:

body { overflow-x: hidden; }    
nav { position: fixed; width: 300px; right: -300px; }

Hope it helps.

Solution 4

For me this fixed the issue as well:

html {
    overflow-x: hidden;
    max-width: 100vw;
}

By the max width the screen seems to be fixed.

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Fahad Hasan

22 years of age. Self-taught Website Developer. Internet Entrepreneur. Aviation, Automobile, Motorsports & Travelling Enthusiast.

Updated on May 08, 2020

Comments

Fahad Hasan about 4 years
I am developing an iPhone version of a Wordpress driven website and I was wondering if there's any method to disable horizontal scrolling when the website is open in Safari for iPhone. Right now, I am half way through the development and just to check if I could disable horizontal scrolling, I have hidden any of the elements which were exceeding the screen width but still I can scroll horizontally to the right. I tried putting the following code inside the <style> tags in the <head> but that didn't help:

body { overflow-x: hidden; }

I have put the following <meta> code inside the head file to echo if the user is viewing the website from an iPhone but it only disables user-pinching i.e. you cannot zoom in and zoom out by pinching the screen.
```
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
```
I am currently using an iPhone 4 to check the website and the website can be accessed by going to this link: http://ignoremusic.com. Looking forward to a solution from you guys, thanks.

SOLUTION: As suggested by @Riskbreaker, there were a few elements which were exceeding the width of ~312px which is why I could still swipe to the left and after adjusting the width of all such elements, I disabled horizontal swipe. One thing which I learned is that hiding overflow-x doesn't help in the case of an iPhone/iPad, you have to reduce the width of all the elements to that of the width of your screen otherwise you'll still be able to swipe horizontally.
Fahad Hasan about 11 years

Thank you for your reply but adding the CSS code didn't work, I can still scroll horizontally.
Riskbreaker about 11 years

are you adding this on style.css or your main css? Also some of the css is getting ignore in your responsive like this: #headertop {width: 980px;}.... which is making horizontal to be swipe...just one example that needs fixing first...
Fahad Hasan about 11 years

just to check if it'd work, I added it inside the <head> tag using <style> tags.
Fahad Hasan about 11 years

Thank you for your help. There were a few elements which were exceeding the page width and once I adjusted it, the problem was solved. Thanks again.
Mago Maverick over 10 years

After trying many other solutions, this is what fixed the issue, thanks for this.
mdomino almost 7 years

Thanks! This helped in my specific case, when no other recommendations would help. :)
THE JOATMON almost 7 years

This fixed a problem I've been fighting for days!
Nitin Mistry over 3 years

This fixed the issue I was facing on iOS 12.x. Although on iOS 13.x and 14.x it worked fine.
Kostiantyn Ko almost 3 years

Yeah, not forgetting the html part here was essential.
Nic Szerman about 2 years

@KostiantynKo why is html essential here?