html - CSS div element - how to show horizontal scroll bars only?

Question

I have a div container and have defined its style as follows:

div#tbl-container 
{
    width: 600px;   
    overflow: auto;    
    scrollbar-base-color:#ffeaff
}

This gives me both horizontal and vertical scroll bars automatically once I populate my table which is contained by this div. I just want only horizontal scroll bars to appear automatically. I will modify the height of the table programmatically.

How do I do this?

Answer 1

You shouldn't get both horizontal and vertical scrollbars unless you make the content large enough to require them.

However you typically do in IE due to a bug. Check in other browsers (Firefox etc.) to find out whether it is in fact only IE that is doing it.

IE6-7 (amongst other browsers) supports the proposed CSS3 extension to set scrollbars independently, which you could use to suppress the vertical scrollbar:

overflow: auto;
overflow-y: hidden;

You may also need to add for IE8:

-ms-overflow-y: hidden;

as Microsoft are threatening to move all pre-CR-standard properties into their own ‘-ms’ box in IE8 Standards Mode. (This would have made sense if they'd always done it that way, but is rather an inconvenience for everyone now.)

On the other hand it's entirely possible IE8 will have fixed the bug anyway.