Only allow the body to scroll x pixels css
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Only allow the body to scroll x pixels css
Lets say my website is 2000px long, my viewport is 1000px tall like so:
By default this will allow the website to scroll 1000px. In order to scroll that distance the scroll bar must move from the top to the bottom.
However what if I only want the scroll bar to be able to scroll 500px, thus hiding the bottom 500px of the website, but I don't want to change the height of my website.
I tried to do this using the css code below:
body
height: 1500px;
max-height: 1500px;
position: absolute;
But this didn't work because body doesn't have a parent element to add scroll bars around it.
Is there any other way to do this?
body
html
@TylerH That worked, thank you I set the html element to overflow scroll. It's for a javascript plugin I'm trying out, I want to bind scroll distance to a javascript event.
– YAHsaves
Aug 10 at 14:45
Glad to hear that worked; please add your solution as an answer and give it the checkmark so others know what solved it for you!
– TylerH
Aug 10 at 14:53
Not sure if this has been solved or not, if not then why not just put it in a div that has a max-height of 1500px (allows the body to scroll to 1500px) with
overflow:hidden I also don't see why you would do this as it is a massive usability issue and is likely to result in a high bounce rate– Pete
Aug 10 at 15:06
overflow:hidden
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I believe position should be relative not absolute. Do you need it to be the body element? Why not create a container element and just wrap the pages content in that so it would be
Example
<body>
<div class="main-container">
website content
</div>
</body>
Styling:
.main-container
height: 1500px;
max-height: 1500px;
position:relative;
I tried position relative, but it didn't work either. I want to do it on the body because I am developing a javascript plugin that needs to work on as many websites as possible, so I won't be able to wrap a websites elements in a parent div ahead of time
– YAHsaves
Aug 10 at 14:42
After some discussion in the comments I realized the html element is the parent of the body element. Thus using the css code in my answer and setting the html overflow to scroll everything works as desired.
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Why do you want to have part of the page like this not be visible? Also,
bodydoes have a parent element:html.– TylerH
Aug 10 at 14:43