Hide scrollbar with overflow:scroll enabled

Question

I need to hide the scrollbar on a div that has overflow:scroll; enabled so that the div will scroll with mouse and keyboard but the scrollbar itself will not be displayed.

Answer 1

@Maloric answer pointed me in the correct direction, however I needed fluid width, and I also wanted to be more accurate on the width of the scrollbar.

Here is a function that will return the exact width of the scrollbar based on what the browser reports.

var getWidth = function () {
    var scrollDiv = document.createElement('div'),
        scrollbarWidth;

    scrollDiv.style.overflow = 'scroll';
    document.body.appendChild(scrollDiv);

    scrollbarWidth = scrollDiv.offsetWidth - scrollDiv.clientWidth;
    
    document.body.removeChild(scrollDiv);

    return scrollbarWidth;
};

var width = getWidth();
var container = document.querySelector('.overflowing-container');

container.style.paddingRight = width + 'px';
container.style.marginRight = (width * -1) + 'px';

// Just for testing purposes
document.querySelector('.scrollbar-width').innerHTML = 'scrollbar height: ' + getWidth()

.container {
  height: 200px;
  overflow-x: hidden;
  overflow-y: auto;
  width: 500px;
}

.overflowing-container {
  height: 100%;
  overflow-y: auto;
  width: 100%;

}

  

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The above snippet shows this in action.