SOLVED: Hide scrollbar but still scroll

Hi, I am sure you might have juiced down your brain for a scrollbar functionality when you were a budding developer. Ya, I am writing about a scrolling behavior for an element without having a scrollbar.

In recent years, the UX people refer to the horizontal scroll for some of the basic use cases like a menu bar, tabs, categories, banner ads, etc., It is most preferred in mobile templates as this occupies less space & improves UX to the users.

Okay, so what’s the real problem is with this for coders? Any guesses?

It’s with the scrollbar. Can we scroll the contents without a scrollbar?

{
    overflow: auto;
}

This will work? This works smooth but the scrollbar visibility isn’t taken care of while scrolling.

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    width: 0px;
    background: transparent;
}

Okay, gotcha? This works with WebKit based browsers only. So what’s the solution with CSS?

I don’t want to write much & bore you rather I wanna fascinate you by the code ;)

Did you notice the magic CSS trick? Ya, that’s my solution code with 100% browser compatibility.

.magic {
 padding-bottom: 30px;
}
.magic-wrapper {
 height: 35px;
 overflow-y: hidden;
 width: 100%;
}

What exactly it is?

1. I have the magic wrapper outside the scrollable contents with a XX height
2. The padding-bottom hides the scrollbar with its immediate parent magic-wrapper’s height

Inspect the element & understand the trick by visualizing it. Use these CSS classes at a higher level in a big project to reuse the code & enjoy clean code.

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