Hide "Horizontal" Scrollbar but still be able to scroll

Question

I need some help with hiding my horizontal scrollbar and still able to scroll. I have used webkit but does not work in IE and firefox. I have seen a lot of help with vertical scrollbar, but does not work with horizontal. Any help?

Update: I have created a JSFiddle to show my problem. I want to hide the horizontal scrollbar and still able to scroll without using

 ::-webkit-scrollbar { 
      display: none; 
   }

http://jsfiddle.net/o1xoh9w8/1/

Answer 1

Here is how you do it, I have tested this in Chrome, IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari(Windows) and Edge

<h1>You can scroll with mouse wheel</h1>

<div id="box">
    <div id="content">
        <p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo. Quisque sit amet est et sapien ullamcorper pharetra. Vestibulum erat wisi, condimentum sed, commodo vitae, ornare sit amet, wisi. Aenean fermentum, elit eget tincidunt condimentum, eros ipsum rutrum orci, sagittis tempus lacus enim ac dui. Donec non enim in turpis pulvinar facilisis. Ut felis. Praesent dapibus, neque id cursus faucibus, tortor neque egestas augue, eu vulputate magna eros eu erat. Aliquam erat volutpat. Nam dui mi, tincidunt quis, accumsan porttitor, facilisis luctus, metus</p>
    </div>
</div>

h1{font-weight:bold;font-size:2em;} /* ignore only for header */
/* *********************** */
div#box{
    height:200px;
    width:300px;     
    overflow:hidden;
    border:1px solid black;
    padding: 10px;
}

div#content{
    height:200px;
    width:326px;
    /*
     * Uncomment to see scrollbar
    width:300px;
    */
    overflow:auto;
}

Here is a JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/JoshMesser/VUSuZ/

Credits go to creator of the JsFiddle

EDIT:

For vertical it is just a matter of changing the height. What you are doing is you are just pushing the scroll bar outside of what user can see, so to them its not there, while in reality it is there hidden behind elements. Here is a JS Fiddle based on my last one. You will see I just forced p to be in single line to get horizontal scrolling and then increased the height to hide the scroll-able bar.

http://jsfiddle.net/VUSuZ/575/

Answer 2

I think you do not want to use

::-webkit-scrollbar { 
  display: none; 
}

Because it will hide all the scroll bars. A better way to hide the scroll bar but still enable scrolling in a particular container will be to follow the following example:

HTML

<div class="container">
  <table>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
         <td>Example</td>
         <td>Example</td>
         <td>Example</td>
         <td>Example</td>
         <td>Example</td>
         <td>Example</td>
         <td>Example</td>
         <td>Example</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>
</div>

CSS

.container {
    overflow-x: auto;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

.container::-webkit-scrollbar {
    display: none;
}

Answer 3

I used a fixed height approach.

Note: this approach can help only in specific cases.

#container1{
    height: 50px;

    /* Just for presentation. Can be removed */
    border: 1px solid red;

    /* Hides content outside this container */
    overflow: hidden;
}

#container2{
    /* Height is significantly greater than the height of container#1 to hide
       any possible scroll */
    height: 100px;
    overflow: auto;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

<div id="container1">
  <div id="container2">
      Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam hendrerit, ante laoreet mattis blandit, arcu nisi blandit felis, et molestie justo lacus et sem. Nunc tempor tellus sit amet eleifend tristique. Integer eget condimentum lectus, nec viverra risus. Nullam leo lectus, placerat vitae porta eget, auctor et nisi. Suspendisse feugiat in lacus accumsan tincidunt. Fusce pulvinar accumsan sem sit amet finibus. Curabitur volutpat mi vitae eros mattis congue. In ut sem eu tellus egestas lobortis vitae eu felis. Maecenas sodales, nisl eu bibendum vulputate, neque leo finibus odio, sit amet bibendum libero dolor sed diam. In molestie magna vitae dui vulputate, eu consequat dui ullamcorper. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Vestibulum pulvinar, mi quis mollis pulvinar, metus justo aliquet arcu, vel venenatis ipsum dolor at sapien. Sed ac odio bibendum, feugiat nibh at, viverra mi. Morbi sem nisi, ultricies non nulla pretium, gravida malesuada neque.
  </div>
</div>

(My case is horizontal scrollable buttons container for mobile screens - the buttons are stuck to the above block (+ margin) and have fixed height)