fixed div with 100% width overlaps scrollbar

Question

As demonstrated here: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/rVPqeL

I am using 3 simple divs and I want to obtain an effect of a "global" scrollbar that has to go over the header.

The html is very basic

<div class="container">
    <div class="header">
    </div>
    <div class="content">
    </div>
</div>

and here's the css:

.container {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  background-color: gray;
  overflow-y: scroll;
}

.header {
  position: fixed;
  width: 100%;
  height: 50px;
  background-color: red;
}

.content {
  margin-top: 50px;
  min-height: 2500px;
  background-color: blue;
}

The scrollbar keeps going under the header div. What am I doing wrong?

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 25 '22 at 11:56

4

i tried with replacing position:fixed with position:sticky and added top:0 and it worked well for me, no more overlapping vertical scrollbar.

.header {
  position: sticky;
  top: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 50px;
  background-color: red;
}

edited Apr 25 '22 at 11:56

Saptarsi

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answered Apr 25 '22 at 04:35

nguyen.ht912

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 06 '15 at 16:26

The below code does the trick http://codepen.io/anon/pen/XbOxgp

.container {
  background-color: gray;
  overflow-y: scroll;
}

.header {
  position: fixed;
  width: 100%;
  height: 50px;
  background-color: red;
  z-index: 2;
}

.content {
  z-index: 1;
  width: 100%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 60px;
  min-height: 2500px;
  background-color: blue;
}

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 06 '15 at 16:13

If I understand correctly you want the scrollbar always ontop. To do so change your css to the following

html{
    overflow-y: scroll;
}
.container {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  background-color: gray;
}

Scroll on html will allow the entire page to have scroll while keeping header static and remove scroll from container.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 06 '15 at 16:13

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.container {
  margin-top:50px; /* create room for header*/
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  background-color: gray;
  overflow-y: scroll;
}

.header {
  margin-top:-50px; /* move up by 50px*/
  position: fixed;
  width: 100%;
  height: 50px;
  background-color: red;
}

fixed positioned elements have "no width and height".

Hope it helps :)

EDIT: See this pen: This

Ps. I guess you also want to remove the margin of .content

answered Aug 06 '15 at 16:13

SimsaD

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This is actually not what OP is asking for. – Stefan Falk Apr 19 '19 at 09:11
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Literally every answer on this is saying the same thing: scroll the body. But what if you don't want to scroll the body? This whole thread is very low quality – Matt Fletcher Oct 02 '19 at 10:29

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 06 '15 at 16:16

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Remove overflow-y: scroll; from your .container

answered Aug 06 '15 at 16:16

Ryan89

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If this answer is correct, which I think this is not the case, why would OP even have added `overflow-y: scroll` to his code? I think OP wants to scroll within the container and not within the whole page. Right? – Evochrome Aug 06 '15 at 16:22

score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 28 '18 at 17:12

-1

put the overflow-y: scroll; inside the body element:

body {
 overflow-y: scroll;
}
.container {
 position: absolute;
 top: 0;
 bottom: 0;
 left: 0;
 right: 0;
 background-color: gray;
}

answered Mar 28 '18 at 17:12

Soul Eater

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fixed div with 100% width overlaps scrollbar

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