[css] How to hide scrollbar in Firefox?

I just found out how to hide the scrollbar in Google Chrome, I did it with this code:

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

The only problem is that this doesn't work on Firefox. I tried many ways to do it but it still doesn't work.

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I tried everything and what worked best for my solution was to always have the vertical scrollbar show, and then add some negative margin to hide it.

This worked for IE11, FF60.9 and Chrome 80

body {
  -ms-overflow-style: none; /** IE11 */
  overflow-y: scroll;
  overflow-x: hidden;
  margin-right: -20px;
}

I used this and it worked. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scrollbar-width

html {
scrollbar-width: none;
}

Note: User Agents must apply any scrollbar-width value set on the root element to the viewport.


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

It will not work in Firefox, as the Firefox abandoned the support for hidden scrollbars with functionality (you can use overflow: -moz-scrollbars-none; in old versions).


In some particular cases (the element is on the very right of the screen, or its parent overflow is hidden) this can be a solution:

@-moz-document url-prefix() {
  .element {
    margin-right: -15px;
  }
}

For webkit use following:

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    width: 0px;  /* remove scrollbar space */
    background: transparent;  /* optional: just make scrollbar invisible */
}

For Mozilla Firefox use following code:

@-moz-document url-prefix() {
    html,body{overflow: hidden !important;}
}

and if scrolling does not work then add

element {overflow-y: scroll;}

to specific element


I was able to hide the scrollbar but still be able to scroll with mouse wheel with this solution:

html {overflow: -moz-scrollbars-none;}

Download the plugin https://github.com/brandonaaron/jquery-mousewheel and include this function:

jQuery('html,body').bind('mousewheel', function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    var scrollTop = this.scrollTop;
    this.scrollTop = (scrollTop + ((event.deltaY * event.deltaFactor) * -1));
    //console.log(event.deltaY, event.deltaFactor, event.originalEvent.deltaMode, event.originalEvent.wheelDelta);
  });

You can use the scrollbar-width rule. You can scrollbar-width: none; to hide the scrollbar in Firefox and still be able to scroll freely.

body {
   scrollbar-width: none;
}

I got it working for me in ReactJS using create-react-app by putting this in my App.css:

@-moz-document url-prefix() {
  html,
  body {
    scrollbar-width: none;
  }
}

Also, the body element has overflow: auto


To hide scroll bar on Chrome, Firefox and IE you can use this:

.hide-scrollbar
{
    overflow: auto;
    -ms-overflow-style: none; /* IE 11 */
    scrollbar-width: none; /* Firefox 64 */
}

For more recent version of Firefox the old solutions don't work anymore, but I did succesfully used in v66.0.3 the scrollbar-color property which you can set to transparent transparent and which will make the scrollbar in Firefox on the desktop at least invisible (still takes place in the viewport and on mobile doesn't work, but there the scrollbar is a fine line that is placed over the content on the right).

overflow-y: auto; //or hidden if you don't want horizontal scrolling
overflow-y: auto;
scrollbar-color: transparent transparent;

Just in case, if someone is looking for a hack to somehow make the scrollbar invisible in firefox(79.0).

Here's a solution that successfully works for Chrome, IE, Safari, and makes the scrollbar transparent in Firefox. None of the above worked for firefox(79.0) in truly hiding the scrollbar.

Please if anyone finds a way to do it without changing the color, it will be very helpful. Pls comment below.

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

.scrollhost ::-moz-scrollbar {
  display: none;
 
}
 
.scrollhost {
  overflow: auto;
  -ms-overflow-style: none;
  scrollbar-color: transparent transparent; /*just hides the scrollbar for firefox */
}

This is something of a generic solution:

<div class="outer">
 <div class="inner">
    Some content...
 </div>
</div>

<style>
 .outer {
 overflow: hidden;
}
 .inner {
 margin-right: -16px;
 overflow-y: scroll;
 overflow-x: hidden;
}
</style>

The scroll bar is hidden by the parent div.

This requires you to use overflow:hidden in the parent div.


Try using this:

overflow-y: -moz-hidden-unscrollable;


This is what I needed to disable scrollbars while preserving scroll in Firefox, Chrome and Edge in :

          @-moz-document url-prefix() { /* Disable scrollbar Firefox */
            html{
              scrollbar-width: none;
            }
          }
          body {
            margin: 0; /* remove default margin */
            scrollbar-width: none; /* Also needed to disable scrollbar Firefox */
            -ms-overflow-style: none;  /* Disable scrollbar IE 10+ */
            overflow-y: scroll;
          }
          body::-webkit-scrollbar {
            width: 0px;
            background: transparent; /* Disable scrollbar Chrome/Safari/Webkit */
          }