Find element that is causing the showing of horizontal scrollbar in Google Chrome

Question

When I size my Chrome window to 328 x 455 pixels I still see a horizontal scrollbar. How can I find out which element is causing this? I\'ve been looking elements via the de

Answer 1

My quick solution with jQuery, stijn de ryck's createXPathFromElement and the console:

/**
 * Show information about overflowing elements in the browser console.
 *
 * @author Nabil Kadimi
 */
var overflowing = [];
jQuery(':not(script)').filter(function() {
    return jQuery(this).width() > jQuery(window).width();
}).each(function(){
    overflowing.push({
        'xpath'    : createXPathFromElement(jQuery(this).get(0)),
        'width'    : jQuery(this).width(),
        'overflow' : jQuery(this).width() - jQuery(window).width()
    });
});
console.table(overflowing);


/**
  * Gets the Xpath of an HTML node
  *
  * @link https://stackoverflow.com/a/5178132/358906
  */
function createXPathFromElement(e){for(var t=document.getElementsByTagName("*"),a=[];e&&1==e.nodeType;e=e.parentNode)if(e.hasAttribute("id")){for(var s=0,l=0;l1));l++);if(1==s)return a.unshift('id("'+e.getAttribute("id")+'")'),a.join("/");a.unshift(e.localName.toLowerCase()+'[@id="'+e.getAttribute("id")+'"]')}else if(e.hasAttribute("class"))a.unshift(e.localName.toLowerCase()+'[@class="'+e.getAttribute("class")+'"]');else{for(i=1,sib=e.previousSibling;sib;sib=sib.previousSibling)sib.localName==e.localName&&i++;a.unshift(e.localName.toLowerCase()+"["+i+"]")}return a.length?"/"+a.join("/"):null}

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