Hiding the scroll bar on an HTML page

Question

Can CSS be used to hide the scroll bar? How would you do this?

Answer 1

I wrote a WebKit version with some options like auto hide, little version, scroll only-y, or only-x:

._scrollable{
    @size: 15px;
    @little_version_ratio: 2;
    @scrollbar-bg-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.15);
    @scrollbar-handler-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.15);
    @scrollbar-handler-color-hover: rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
    @scrollbar-coner-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);

    overflow-y: scroll;
    overflow-x: scroll;
    -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;

    &::-webkit-scrollbar {
        background: none;
        width: @size;
        height: @size;
    }

    &::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
        background-color:@scrollbar-bg-color;
        border-radius: @size;
    }

    &::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
        border-radius: @size;
        background-color:@scrollbar-handler-color;
        &:hover{
            background-color:@scrollbar-handler-color-hover;
        }
    }

    &::-webkit-scrollbar-corner {
      background-color: @scrollbar-coner-color;
    }

    &.little{
        &::-webkit-scrollbar {
            background: none;
            width: @size / @little_version_ratio;
            height: @size / @little_version_ratio;
        }
        &::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
            border-radius: @size / @little_version_ratio;
        }
        &::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
            border-radius: @size / @little_version_ratio;
        }
    }

    &.autoHideScrollbar{
        overflow-x: hidden;
        overflow-y: hidden;
        &:hover{
            overflow-y: scroll;
            overflow-x: scroll;
            -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
            &.only-y{
                overflow-y: scroll !important;
                overflow-x: hidden !important;
            }

            &.only-x{
                overflow-x: scroll !important;
                overflow-y: hidden !important;
            }
        }
    }

    &.only-y:not(.autoHideScrollbar){
        overflow-y: scroll !important;
        overflow-x: hidden !important;
    }

    &.only-x:not(.autoHideScrollbar){
        overflow-x: scroll !important;
        overflow-y: hidden !important;
    }
}

http://codepen.io/hicTech/pen/KmKrjb