[html] White space showing up on right side of page when background image should extend full length of page

Our webpage background images are having problems in FireFox as well as Safari in iOS on iPads/iPhones with white space showing up on the right side of the page.

The background images extend fine on other browsers but we're having difficulty not extending the full length of the browser on those browsers.

Take a look at our site on FireFox to see what I mean.

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I added:

html,body
{
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
    overflow-x: hidden; 
}

into your CSS at the very top above the other classes and it seemed to fix your issue.

Your updated .css file is available here


I was experiencing the white line to the right on my iPad as well in horizontal position only. I was using a fixed-position div with a background set to 960px wide and z-index of -999. This particular div only shows up on an iPad due to a media query. Content was then placed into a 960px wide div wrapper. The answers provided on this page were not helping in my case. To fix the white stripe issue I changed the width of the content wrapper to 958px. Voilá. No more white right white stripe on the iPad in horizontal position.


This is a pretty old question, but I thought I'd add my 2 cents. I've tried the above solutions, including the ghost css, which I will definitely be saving for future use. But none of these worked in my situation. Here's how I fixed my issue. Hopefully this will help someone else.

Open inspector (or whatever your preference) and starting with the first div in body tag, add display: none; to just that element. If the scroll bar disappears, you know that element contains the element that's causing the issue. Then, remove the first css rule and go down one level into the containing element. Add the css to that div, and if the scroll bar goes away, you know that element is either causing, or containing the offending element. If adding the CSS does nothing, you know it was not that div that caused the issue, and either another div in the container is causing it, or the container itself is causing it.

This may be too time consuming for some. Lucky for me, my issue was in the header, but I can imagine this taking a bit of time if your issue was say, in the footer or something.


I see the question has been answered to a general standard, but when I looked at your site I noticed there is still a horizontal scroll-bar. I also notice the reason for this: You have used the code:

.homepageconference .container {
padding-left: 12%;
}

which is being used alongside code stating that the element has a width of 100%, causing an element with a total width of 112% of screen size. To fix this, either remove the padding, replace the padding with a margin of 12% for the same effect, or change the width (or max-width) of the element to 88%. This occurs in main.css at line 343. Hope this helps!


overflow-x: hidden; works perfect for me.


After exploring some of the helpful strategies provided here, I found that I only needed to add iOS specific CSS (I put it at the bottom of my main css sheet.) Seems like hiding the overflow-x was the answer for me. I assume that stating the width at 100% helps in the event that my content goes wide. It should be noted that I was only having this issue in iOS. If it is also in Firefox, just the html and body block should probably be used as the @media is specifically targeting mobile devices.

@media
only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5),
only screen and (-o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3/2),
only screen and (min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5),
only screen and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5){

  html,
  body{
    width:100%;
    overflow-x:hidden;
  }

}

Please hip me if this seems incorrect to anyone :)


I've also had the same issue ( Website body background rendering a right white margin in iPhone Safari ) and found that adding the background image to the <html> tag fixed the problem.

Before

body {background:url('images/back.jpg');}

After

html, body {background:url('images/back.jpg');}

The problem is in the file :

style.css - line 721

#sub_footer {
    background: url("../images/exterior/sub_footer.png") repeat-x;
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(0% 100% 90deg,#102c40, #091925);
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(#091925), to(#102c40));
    -moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #999999;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #999999;
    box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #999999;
    padding-top:10px;
    font-size:9px;
    min-height:40px;
}

remove the lines :

-moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #999999;
-webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #999999;
box-shadow: 3px 3px 4px #999999; 

This basically gives a shadow gradient only to the footer. In Firefox, it is the first line that is causing the problem.


This question has been hanging around for a while, but none of the fixes I could find worked for me (having the same issue with ipad), but I managed my own solution which should work for most people I imagine.

Here's my code:

html {
   background: url("../images/blahblah.jpg") repeat-y;
   min-width: 100%;
   background-size: contain;
}

Enjoy!


Apparently the (-o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3/2) is causing problems. On my test site it was causing the right side to be cut off. I found a workaround on github that works for now. Using(-o-min-device-pixel-ratio: ~"3/2") seems to work fine.


I had the same issue, so tried a few things. One of which seemed to work for me - removing the width and adding a float to the body tag.

May not work for all instances, but in the scenario I recently had, hiding overflow on content elements was a no go...


Debug your CSS for Ghost CSS Elements.

Use this bookmark to debug your CSS: https://blog.wernull.com/2013/04/debug-ghost-css-elements-causing-unwanted-scrolling/

Or add the CSS directly yourself:

* {
  background: #000 !important;
  color: #0f0 !important;
  outline: solid #f00 1px !important;
}

In my case a Facebook Like Button caused the problem.