HTML: How to create a DIV with only vertical scroll-bars for long paragraphs?

Question

I want to show terms and condition note on my website. I dont want to use text field and also dont want to use my whole page. I just want to display my text in selected area and want to use only vertical scroll-bar to go down and read all text.

Currently I am using this code:

<div style="width:10;height:10;overflow:scroll" >
 text text text text text text text text text
 text text text text text text text text text
 text text text text text text text text text
 text text text text text text text text text
 text text text text text text text text text
 text text text text text text text text text
 text text text text text text text text text
 text text text text text text text text text
</div>

Two Problems:

1. It is not fixing the width and height and spread until the all text appears.
2. Second it is showing horizontal scroll-bar and I don't want to show it.

Answer 1

Use overflow-y. This property is CSS 3.

Answer 2

to hide the horizontal scrollbars, you can set overflow-x to hidden, like this:

overflow-x: hidden;

Answer 3

You need to specify the width and height in px:

width: 10px; height: 10px;

In addition, you can use overflow: auto; to prevent the horizontal scrollbar from showing.

Therefore, you may want to try the following:

<div style="width:100px; height:100px; overflow: auto;" >
  text text text text text text text text text
  text text text text text text text text text
  text text text text text text text text text
  text text text text text text text text text
  text text text text text text text text text
  text text text text text text text text text
  text text text text text text text text text
  text text text text text text text text text
</div>

Answer 4

Thank you first

Use overflow:auto it works for me.

horizontal scroll bar disappears.

Answer 5

For any case set overflow-x to hidden and I prefer to set max-height in order to limit the expansion of the height of the div. Your code should looks like this:

overflow-y: scroll;
overflow-x: hidden;
max-height: 450px;

Answer 6

To show vertical scroll bar in your div you need to add

height: 100px;   
overflow-y : scroll;

or

height: 100px; 
overflow-y : auto;

Answer 7

overflow-y : scroll;
overflow-x : hidden;

height is optional

Answer 8

You can use the overflow property

style="overflow: scroll ;max-height: 250px; width: 50%;"

Answer 9

I also faced the same issue...try to do this...this worked for me

        .scrollBbar 
        {
        position:fixed;
        top:50px;
        bottom:0;
        left:0;
        width:200px;
        overflow-x:hidden;
        overflow-y:auto;
       }