Overflow-y: Scroll not showing scrollbar in Chrome

Question

I am generating a list of organisations of the left hand side of this page: http://www.ihhub.org/member-map/

This list is generated through appending <span> tags that are linked to the corresponding map.

My issue is - the scroll bar does not appear in CHROME but does appear in Firefox and Safari.

Any solutions?

UPDATE:

This issue appears to be isolated to MAC OS.

SOLUTION:

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    width: 7px;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
    border-radius: 4px;
    background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.5);
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.5);
}

Solution 1

According to CSS - Overflow: Scroll; - Always show vertical scroll bar?: OSx Lion hides scrollbars while not in use to make it seem more "slick", but at the same time the issue you addressed comes up: people sometimes cannot see whether a div has a scroll feature or not.

CSS fix:

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    width: 7px;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
    border-radius: 4px;
    background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.5);
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,.5);
}

Solution 2

I am seeing scroll bar well. If you are using Mac, you may want to make sure that scrollbars are always shown

Solution 3

Add this to your css

.list::-webkit-scrollbar {
    -webkit-appearance: scrollbartrack-vertical;
}    

or

.list::-webkit-scrollbar {
   -webkit-appearance: scrollbarthumb-vertical;
} 

Solution 4

I am using Windows 8 and Google Chrome version is 48.0.2564.97. And its working perfect. See in image highlighted area.

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Comments

[Admin]

Hi Timo - unfortunately the scroll bar does not appear on the list of organisations when I changed the mac settings. Furthermore - I believe - that this is an issue on Chrome for Mac and Windows.

[Admin]

I am glad to see this is working on Chrome - is this on Windows. If so the issue is still on Mac. I have changed to overflow:auto as per a few comments. Please advise.

[Admin]

Great Timo - looks like it is just Mac that this is not appearing on automatically. I am still seeking for this solution. I have changed overflow-y:scroll to overflow:auto and no change.

[Admin]

Hi Timo - many thanks for pointing this out. Unfortunately it was not what I was looking for however i did come across the solution thanks to your ::-webkit-scrollbar selector.

[Admin]

I have shared above @Timo and I have added to the website link too. Many thanks for your input.

[Timo]

Thanks. No problem :)

[Yarin]

This is almost a great solution, problem is it adds space for the scrollbar gutter that wouldn't otherwise be there. I wish there was a way to show it without taking up extra space.

[Akansh]

@Timo It's not working now and coming as Invalid property value.