Is there a way to prevent horizontal page scroll on a mobile device preferably with CSS only?
Here's an example: /
Update: The following code solves the issue on iOS but the problem remains on Android:
html, body {
overflow-x: hidden !important;
position: relative !important;
}
Is there a way to prevent horizontal page scroll on a mobile device preferably with CSS only?
Here's an example: http://jsfiddle/YfLst/15/
Update: The following code solves the issue on iOS but the problem remains on Android:
html, body {
overflow-x: hidden !important;
position: relative !important;
}
3 Answers
Reset to default 3There are different ways to do that:
You could target mobile devices with a special stylesheet
<link rel="stylesheet" media="handheld, only screen and (max-device-width: 320px)" href="phone.css">
And set the body width to 100% and overflow-x: hidden, or even try to position it absolutely
body {
width: 100%;
overflow-x: hidden;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
in css.
If by "preventing horizontal scrolling" you mean that your viewport (the area displayed on the mobile screen) is too narrow and should be bigger, you should set the viewport width accordingly in your meta tags
<meta content="width = 999 (for example)" name="viewport">
Not with CSS, but you can make your document no wider than the screen and you won't have the issue.
Otherwise you will have to use a javascript/jquery solution like so: http://forum.jquery./topic/scrollview-make-page-not-scrollable
With jQuery mobile the order of the css files matters. What I had to do is make sure that I included my theme css before the jQuery Mobile css instead of after it like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/themes/green-theme.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/jquery.mobile.structure.min.css" />
If you look in jQuery Mobile's css, you'll see code to prevent horizontal scrolling:
body.ui-mobile-viewport, div.ui-mobile-viewport {
overflow-x: hidden;
}
You don't even have to add any classes to your body tag. jQuery mobile does it automatically.