How to get a scrollbar in a div with fixed header and footer?
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Solution 1
This can be slowed by using padding and box-sizing = border-box on body ( with body height 100% it will count padding into height, so the box with scroll will be exactly between header and footer)
html {
overflow: hidden;
height: 100%;
}
body {
padding: 60px 0px;
height: 100%;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
div[role="main"] {
overflow-y: scroll;
height: 100%;
}
see http://jsfiddle.net/wPucQ/
EDIT: Added forgotten HTML tag in code
Solution 2
You need to give the scrollable element a height so the scroll-bar position can be calculated.
div[role="main"]
{
height:400px;
overflow-y: scroll;
margin: 60px 0;
}
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Updated on June 05, 2022Comments
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Ron van der Heijden about 2 years
I have an website and some problems with the scrollbar.
What I want I can best explain with this image.
But I can't get the scrollbar like this.
I have tried some, here is the jsfiddle
In this fiddle I also have:
div[role="main"] { overflow-y: scroll; margin: 60px 0; }
But this margin is not OK, how do I know what margin I need without knowing the header and footer height.