Avoid vertical clipping issues by utilizing the overflow-y property

I am working on a horizontal navigation menu with two levels; the second level is displayed vertically. The number of items in the second level can vary, sometimes causing the list to extend beyond the browser view. To address this issue, I have used overflow-y:auto and 

max-height:<arbitrary height>px
. However, I now face another problem where the scrollbar clips some vertical space of the overflowed list, resulting in the need for a horizontal scrollbar to display the clipped area.

Is there a way to prevent the scrollbar from clipping part of the list's width? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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p.s. If you have suggestions for a better title for my question, please let me know as I was struggling to come up with one.

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Answer №1

After a brief examination, I noticed that the "a" tags on your website have both padding:5px and width:100%; this results in them being displayed as (100% + 10px) where the extra 10px will always remain hidden behind the scroll bar.

In order to ensure that the container has a correct 100% width, consider giving the "a" tags padding:5px 0; and applying padding:5px; to the vertical drop-down menu.

I hope this explanation is clear.

You can view the changes I made here: http://jsfiddle.net/XxasC/10/ Please address any issues arising from the added padding.

In conclusion: Avoid assigning both "width:100%" and "padding-left/right" to an element as it will cause it to render wider than 100%! (Padding is always included in the width calculation - even with 100%)

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